Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In my next lifetime, I want to come back as a composer.
I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
We used to listen to all the marvelous operas on records. Music was a very important part of our lives.
There's a lot of music in my life, and I found it a very important part of my life.
I've been blessed with the ability to sing, and that has taken me so many places I never would have gone otherwise.
I've had a wonderful life with music.
I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.
It was at Juilliard that I realized that being a singer encompasses so many things that I am interested in. Literature, languages, physics, history, art. You really get to explore so many things.
When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.
Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.
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