29 Quotes by Leontyne Price

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era; it should never leave you.

Momma was home. She was the most totally human, human being that I have ever known, and so very beautiful. Within our home, she was an abundance of love, discipline, fun, affection, strength, tenderness, encouragement, understanding, inspiration, support.

Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

Once you get on stage, everything is right. I feel the most beautiful, complete, fulfilled. I think that's why, in the case of noncompromising career women, parts of our personal lives don't work out. One person can't give you the feeling that thousands of people give you.

If I do have some success, I'd like to enjoy it, for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise?

... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat all, my egomania, my selfishness, coupled with a really magnificent voice.

Accomplishments have no color.

All token Blacks have the same experience. I have been pointed at as a solution to things that have not yet begun to be solved, because pointing at us token Blacks eases consciences of millions, and this is dreadfully wrong.