22 Quotes by Kathleen Battle

I can’t imagine life without singing.

In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. ‘Crossing the River Jordan’ was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.

Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower – and then for public consumption.

Wherever and whenever I sing, if there is only one spiritual on a program, people will talk about two things afterward, and one of them will be the spiritual. What I bring to this is the best of my classical training – not all of it. I apply what is appropriate.