27 Quotes by Montserrat Caballe

I try in roles like Salome to sing earthily, but it comes out as sweet-earthy. You know, it's like when someone has a beautiful face: you can do what you want to it, but it's still beautiful.

Music is part of life. It is not the real life. I belong to that first: family, children. The important things.

I feel like a person who has dedicated her whole life to the music she loves.

I realised in 1985, after sitting for months and being very down, that I have to move. I have to be busy. Because, otherwise, it is like being in a waiting room. And waiting for what?

Drama if I sing, drama if I don't sing. What do you do?

If I cannot sing, I have the impression that I no longer exist. I mean it. I mean that I am not physically there.

I am not a person who can do nothing. I get very bored.

I love to sing with my daughter. Audiences like it because a mother-daughter pairing is a curiosity.

I've received many awards, but I'm most proud of the ones for my country's music.