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Lesley Garrett
English
Musician
About the author
There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career.
Lesley Garrett,
English
Musician
#Successful
#Career
#Singing
I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible.
Lesley Garrett,
English
Musician
#Music
I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.
Lesley Garrett,
English
Musician
#People
#Wine
#Opera
I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever heard.
Lesley Garrett,
English
Musician
#Thought
#Singing
#Music
#Sound
I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time.
Lesley Garrett,
English
Musician
#Time
#Years
#First
#Opera
I don't think I have ever met a single person who isn't moved by music of some kind.
Lesley Garrett,
English
Musician
#Music
I don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.
Lesley Garrett,
English
Musician
#Family
#Community
I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again.
Lesley Garrett,
English
Musician
#Hope
#Will
#Spring
I do a lot of vocal hygiene.
Lesley Garrett,
English
Musician
#Hygiene
As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always a great way to get more of the public to connect with classical music, and opera particularly.
Lesley Garrett,
English
Musician
#Public
#Attention
#Music
#Opera
And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music.
Lesley Garrett,
English
Musician
#Music
#Existence
What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.
Lesley Garrett,
English
Musician
#People
#Present
#Artists
#Music
#Musicians
I'm engaging my diaphragm as I'm speaking to you right now.
Lesley Garrett,
English
Musician
#Right
#Now
To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.
Lesley Garrett,
English
Musician
#Home
#Truth
#Opera
It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.
Lesley Garrett,
English
Musician
#Training
#Fame
#Fortune
Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to.
Lesley Garrett,
English
Musician
#Music
Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself.
Lesley Garrett,
English
Musician
One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.
Lesley Garrett,
English
Musician
#Talk
#Problems
#Being
#Artists
#Attention
#Music
#Media
#Opera
Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?
Lesley Garrett,
English
Musician
#Now
#Drama
#Football
#Opera
Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices.
Lesley Garrett,
English
Musician
#Needs
#Singing
#Business
That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.
Lesley Garrett,
English
Musician
#Music
#Communication
The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.
Lesley Garrett,
English
Musician
#Deep
I wouldn't want to criticise someone like Charlotte Church because she has done fantastically well, but personally I've always cared about the long term.
Lesley Garrett,
English
Musician
#Want
#Church