All quotations and phrases said by Sarah Caldwell including famous quotes

As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly approach the piece from different points of view. That's what makes it interesting and keeps it alive.
-- Sarah Caldwell

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I enjoy doing both of them very much, concert work particularly, and the division varies from season to season.
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If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.
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If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.
-- Sarah Caldwell

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Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.
-- Sarah Caldwell

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Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.
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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.
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Success is important only to the extent that it.
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.
-- Sarah Caldwell

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That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
-- Sarah Caldwell

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The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.
-- Sarah Caldwell

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