Didonato Joyce Quotes & Sayings

When God breathes He breathes on hard-hearted people. — Louie Giglio

The worst thing about losing this job: I'm no longer covered by NBC. I have to sign up for ObamaCare. — Jay Leno

We are all Unique in the Same World with Different Thinking and want to Have a Peaceful Life, please Accept Each Other in the Way we Are. — Jan Jansen

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial. — Eugene O'Neill

Ages are mere reminders of the hours logged on this earth and the precious time remaining. — Casper Smart

For what purpose could the enumeration of particular powers be inserted, if these and all others were meant to be included in the preceding general power? — James Madison

I know that every time I step on the stage it's a real gift, so I try not to take it for granted, and I try to make it an experience that the public can really participate in. — Joyce DiDonato

One of the things I love about opera is that it's the combination of all the art forms, and certainly the world of fashion is a big deal in it. — Joyce DiDonato

I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time. — B.B. King

I've learned that you don't need a lot in life. If it can't fit into a suitcase, you don't really need it. — Joyce DiDonato

I think yoga builds strength, flexibility, and calming of the mind - which is never a bad thing. — Joyce DiDonato

Although my father had never been there, I came to believe I would someday see that city for him. — Alice Hoffman

I think I've learned more about Baroque music than any other genre. — Joyce DiDonato

I'm a mezzo-soprano, so the whole diva thing ... I'm not the kind of performer who puts on a persona off-stage as well, and the days of arriving with steamer trunks and hat boxes are over. — Joyce DiDonato

It's tricky when you're doing a recording, because the only weapon you have is your voice and the delivery of that voice. You don't have a gesture or a facial expression, there are no costumes or set pieces. Everything needs to be present in the voice. — Joyce DiDonato

It is not wrong to want to live better; what is wrong is a style of life which is presumed to be better when it is directed towards 'having' rather than 'being,' and which wants to have more, not in order to be more but in order to spend life in enjoyment as an end in itself. — Pope John Paul I

I want people to know me for my singing. I've never been searching for a label of being a fashion plate or a top model. That's a thing that's very short-lived, and it's dealing with a superficial level of this which doesn't really appeal to me. — Joyce DiDonato

You ... are now servants to the ear that needs quiet solace, and the eye that needs the consolation of beauty, servants to the mind that needs desperate repose or pointed inquiry, to the heart that needs invitation to flight or silent understanding, and to the soul that needs safe landing, or fearless, relentless enlightenment. — Joyce DiDonato