43 Quotes by Lesley Garrett

Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?

The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.

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.

I'm engaging my diaphragm as I'm speaking to you right now.

Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices.

There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career.

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.

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.

And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music.