Quotes from Nellie Melba

Always sing below your potential.

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

One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it.

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.

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

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