Montserrat Quotes & Sayings

When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true. — Montserrat Caballe

The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental. — Montserrat Caballe

Joseph decided it was safe to come out from hiding and flee Judaea. He devoted his life to keeping the Grail and spreading the Gospel of Jesus. Before he died, Joseph passed the Grail for safekeeping to a group of early Christians in the Roman province of Tarraconensis, who kept and venerated the relic but understood from his teachings that its power was best kept hidden lest evil men exploit it. And generations later the Grail ascended, some would say closer to God, carried by monks to a high peak in Hispania to a mountain that would come to be called Montserrat. — Glenn Cooper

She was a daughter of the Virgin of Montserrat, and she felt instinctively and of course heretically that the Virgin herself was only a symbol of a yet greater sister-mother who was carefree and sorrowful all at once, a goddess who didn't guide you or shield you but only went with you from place to place and added her tangible presence to your own when required. — Helen Oyeyemi

I love to sing with my daughter. Audiences like it because a mother-daughter pairing is a curiosity. — Montserrat Caballe

- Who would carry the bell canto
- Of course Montserrat Caballe — Maria Callas

A soprano's voice is a little like a mother's cry, which is why it attracts all human beings. — Montserrat Caballe

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

The sound of a mother's voice expresses a feeling of intimacy, which has a truly magical effect on the listener. — Montserrat Caballe

Drama if I sing, drama if I don't sing. What do you do? — Montserrat Caballe

I've received many awards, but I'm most proud of the ones for my country's music. — Montserrat Caballe

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

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

I am not a person who can do nothing. I get very bored. — Montserrat Caballe