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I have never felt like a diva!
Montserrat Caballe / Operatic Soprano
Never Like Felt
Diva
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Drama if I sing, drama if I dont sing. What do you do?
Montserrat Caballe / Operatic Soprano
Drama
Ifs
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Drama if I sing, drama if I don't sing. What do you do?
Montserrat Caballe / Operatic Soprano
Drama
Sing
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I am not a person who can do nothing. I get very bored.
Montserrat Caballe / Operatic Soprano
Bored
I Am Nothing Person
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I am living against all predictions. The doctors say I am a sort of witch.
Montserrat Caballe / Operatic Soprano
Predictions
Witch
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I feel like a person who has dedicated her whole life to the music she loves.
Montserrat Caballe / Operatic Soprano
Dedicated
Life Music Feel
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First, love to the family. Second, love to career. Third, love to the audience.
Montserrat Caballe / Operatic Soprano
First Love
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I've received many awards, but I'm most proud of the ones for my country's music.
Montserrat Caballe / Operatic Soprano
Awards
Received
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A soprano's voice is a little like a mother's cry, which is why it attracts all human beings.
Montserrat Caballe / Operatic Soprano
Cry
Human Beings
Attracts
Beings
Soprano
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I love to sing with my daughter. Audiences like it because a mother-daughter pairing is a curiosity.
Montserrat Caballe / Operatic Soprano
Curiosity
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Of course there are other prima donnas around. So many of my colleagues, younger ones, are wonderful.
Montserrat Caballe / Operatic Soprano
Colleagues
Prima
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The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.
Montserrat Caballe / Operatic Soprano
Give Me
Giving
Impossible
Moments
Please
Temperamental
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When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.
Montserrat Caballe / Operatic Soprano
Music
Singers
Singing
Automatically
Ring
Experiences
Singer
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Music is part of life. It is not the real life. I belong to that first: family, children. The important things.
Montserrat Caballe / Operatic Soprano
Important Things
Life Family Music
Belong
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The sound of a mother's voice expresses a feeling of intimacy, which has a truly magical effect on the listener.
Montserrat Caballe / Operatic Soprano
Intimacy
Mother
Sound
Voice
Effect
Expresses
Feeling
Listener
Magical
Truly
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If I cannot sing, I have the impression that I no longer exist. I mean it. I mean that I am not physically there.
Montserrat Caballe / Operatic Soprano
Impression
Physically
Exist
Longer
Sing
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I have always made impresarios a lot of money across my career and have never, so far as I am aware, given any of them heart attacks.
Montserrat Caballe / Operatic Soprano
Careers
Heart
Made
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I have many that wants to, let's say, marry me. But I always tell my mother that the day I have to ask myself, 'I love this man?' means I don't love him.
Montserrat Caballe / Operatic Soprano
Love Myself Man
Marry
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I realised in 1985, after sitting for months and being very down, that I have to move. I have to be busy. Because, otherwise, it is like being in a waiting room. And waiting for what?
Montserrat Caballe / Operatic Soprano
Busy
Months
Realised
Sitting
Waiting
Otherwise
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I don't cancel because of temperament. I have had seven major surgeries in my life. I have had tumors. I have had two children with Caesareans; you don't just get up and sing the day after one of those.
Montserrat Caballe / Operatic Soprano
Temperament
Life Day My Life
Cancel
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You are born with a sound; everyone is, less or more. And this sound has to be developed. I am not talking about vocal technique; I am not talking about how to sing. I am talking about how to produce a sound.
Montserrat Caballe / Operatic Soprano
Not Talking
Technique
Vocal
Developed
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This has not changed: always like the first time, very, very nervous. But when the music begins, you are in the music, it's a sort of transformation. Your feeling for the music is greater and has nothing to do with your nerves. You go out of yourself.
Montserrat Caballe / Operatic Soprano
Nerves
Transformation
Time Music Always
Begins
Time Music Yourself
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It is the sensation of being tired but having a good feeling, you know, a sensation that you have done it honestly and given all your strength. And it is no matter that you feel like this, because this is what you have to do when you go into this sort of life. This is what I choose.
Montserrat Caballe / Operatic Soprano
Good Feeling
Life Strength Good
Sensation
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