Beverly Sills Quotes

I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

There's not anything I can fix, change, make better its out to the world. I'd like to say that I like my records but it's for reasons other than enjoyment, it's more like a notch on my revolver, one more down. I am proud of my work, yes but its accomplishment to me and another year of schooling,in making records it can always be better!

I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride.

I've always treated my career like independent. Everything that I got is because of myself, my own endorsements, my own touring myself.

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.

'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was my labor of love. When asked the best thing I ever did - that was it. I wrote it originally for myself.

I'm very proud of 'Backatown,' and usually I don't like to listen to my records.

I want to etch my name into the history books myself, both at club and international level.

Even if the film doesn't come out quite as you'd hoped, the process can also be very rewarding. I feel that way about a film called 'Lay the Favorite' that I made with Stephen Frears. I did that because the character was a real leap for me. The film doesn't quite all add up internally, but I feel very proud of what I did on it.

'Fences' is under the headline of the project of my lifetime. It is the most perfect and undeniably developed narrative that I've ever worked on.

The American dream is Chance the Rapper, or 'little Chano from 79th' who hails from Chicago's Southside and became the first artist to win a Grammy without selling one physical copy of his album.

I would have never thought that somebody like me from the small country of Bulgaria could make it in WWE.

As an independent artist, there can be nothing better than the fact that your song will be played and heard in different corners of the world.

Pretty much every record I've ever done, I can go back and listen to them and be proud. I'm proud of everything I've done.

I write all my own raps myself, 100 percent. And it feels good to be able to say that.

Apart from being a playback singer for films, I'm also an independent musician.

I'm artistically satisfied and happy.

My first album was called 'Badlands,' and it's something that I think I'm most proud of having done in my life.

I think 'Sound of My Voice' was the first film where suddenly I could point to something I had done that I was proud of and say, 'Look at this piece of work.' And that's probably what led to 'Fruitvale Station,' which was the real break.

I was born in a small village in Kerala. From there, I went on to play for the Kerala state team and international test cricket for India, and now I am working in TV shows and cinema... Any miracle can happen.

My animation work is a major source of pride for me.

It took me a long time to get to where I am, but I am here and it is everywhere I want to be. A place where both my artistic merit and hard work meet. A day where I can say, 'Yeah, I'm a musician. A good one.'

I think what I've learned to focus on is my music, and that's why I made my record independently.

So when you're sat there and you're looking at a platinum disc on your wall, for a song you wrote on your own, it's like this is getting crazy, man. It's all crazy.