Lesley Garrett Quotes

For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great opera.

When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I'm very happy. Because it's the same thing that happened to me as a child. When I first heard the tenor voice, I immediately fell in love with this kind of music.

I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.

From the very beginning, I started doing music performances with a lot of theatrical aspects to them, where humor was a part of it but not necessarily had to be. Humor is just another tool to make the palette more rich and interesting for myself and eventually for the public. It's a great way to break out of convention.

I love music, especially classical like Verdi; it's a great way to relax.

More people are listening to opera, and I'm happy - everybody must be given that opportunity.

I'd love to do 'Werther.' It's a great opera, and the music's so beautiful.

I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with.

I listen to Handel's vocal music, almost exclusively.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

I love listening to classical music.

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

We have to go and show these people what classical music is. We say sometimes that classical music has a small audience, but it's because people don't have the chance to be closer to it.

How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.

Mozart, Beethoven - how can you not want to share them with everyone and anyone? This stuff is of as great importance as the food we eat and the air we breathe.

I think the opera is one of the great cultural jewels of Los Angeles.

I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

As far as doing TV, I do think there's a big audience out there that could enjoy classical music, but they don't know how to find it, and sometimes by doing different things... crossover things probably make up about 5% of what I do.

My worst fear is my music won't connect with the public.

I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.

I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.

I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.

We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.