16 Quotes by Nellie Melba

What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?

Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.

There are two things I like stiff and one of them’s jelly.

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.

Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart’s blood of the composer.

If I’d been a housemaid I’d have been the best in Australia – I couldn’t help it. It’s got to be perfection for me.

Do everything yourself.