24 Quotes by Sarah Caldwell

If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.

Success is important only to the extent that it.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.

You know the amount of money you should have - you don't have it. To stimulate more, you just need to perform. What knocked us out finally was not enough money for both productions and building maintenance. It's not that we didn't want to do it - we couldn't.

Raving mad is quite easy. You just chew up the scenery or something. It's quiet mad that's hard.

Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.

Once in a while, when everything is just right, there is a moment of magic. People can live on moments of magic.

We must continuously discipline ourselves to I remember how it felt the first moment.

The secret of living is to find people who will pay you money to do what YOU would pay to do if you had the money.