24 Quotes by Sarah Caldwell

Tanglewood [summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra] was a place where gods strode the earth.

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can – there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.

Music – opera particularly – is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

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.

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.