Lesley Garrett Quotes

I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again.

To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.

Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices.

Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?

I don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.

There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career.

That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.

I don't think I have ever met a single person who isn't moved by music of some kind.

I also have to support my speaking voice by sitting in a way that engages the diaphragm in the way I would for singing.

I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever heard.

I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible.

I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.

I do a lot of vocal hygiene.

Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to.

My mum used to say to me, 'Spit on yer 'ands and take a fresh 'old.' Keep going even if you have setbacks.

Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself.

The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.

And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music.

I'm engaging my diaphragm as I'm speaking to you right now.