Sarah Caldwell - Quotes

Quotes

  • Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.
  • 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.
  • If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.

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