Quotes About Aspiration

I would have loved to sing opera, but I have no voice. I used to sing along with records.

I never dreamed of writing for concert or opera. I always dreamed, if I was a composer, to write music for films.

My real passion is for opera. It was born and developed by listening to records, and my dream as a child was to record entire operas when I grew up, and this dream came true.

I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera.

I had a year at 3 when I wanted to be a conductor in the opera.

I decided I was going to be an opera star. I was about 12.

I wrote my own pop songs and sang one of them when I went into a stupid beauty competition when I was 16. That was my public debut, and it made my mother even more determined that I should go into opera!

I'd always had this hankering to try some opera.

I never wanted to be an opera singer. I wanted to be an actress, maybe a rock singer.

I began by listening to my mother's collection of Amelita Galli-Curci and Lily Pons records, and then was taken (at age eight) to hear Pons at a Met performance of Lakme. It was at that moment that I decided to become an opera star. Not just an opera singer, but an opera star!

I want to be known as trying to be one of the best of the best - whether I get there or not, it's up to opinion.

Todos estamos en el fango, pero algunos miramos las estrellas

we are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars

ya, aku memang seorang pemimpi. karena pemimpi adalah orang yang dapat menemukan jalannya dengan diterangi cahaya bulan, dan orang pertama yang melihat matahari terbit sebelum seluruh dunia melihatnya.

The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is. Wealth has given me enormous power. It gave me at the very outset of my life freedom, and freedom is everything.

You talk books away, he said; why don't you write one? I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Erskine. I should like to write a novel certainly, a novel that would be as lovely as a Persian carpet and as unreal.

He seems to read nothing but my books, and says his one desire is to 'follow in my footsteps'! But I have told him that they lead to terrible places.

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst—the last is a real tragedy.

A new life! That was what he wanted. That was what he was waiting for. Surely he

All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.

Since you can never be my bride, My tree at least you shall be! Let the laurel Adorn, henceforth, my hair, my lyre, my quiver: Let Roman victors, in the long procession, Wear laurel wreaths for triumph and ovation.

and I will reach the stars with the crown of my head

To wish for what you want is not enough; With ardent longing you must strive for it.