Cecilia Bartoli Quotes

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

I have always known that it comes from deep within myself. I always knew what sound I wanted, and how I wanted to play. I knew everything, it just had to be developed.

I try to just be the person I am, with a lot of sensitivity to the genre in which I'm playing.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

Whatever I hear in my head is what I play.

I am gentle. I think nearly everyone who makes music is sensitive - I don't care how hard they pretend they are.

Being active every day makes it easier to hear that inner voice.

Moment after moment, completely devote yourself to listening to your inner voice.

In reality everybody has got musical thoughts. If you are able to overcome the part of it which is muscle training, which is what most musical playing actually is, performance actually is, is muscle training, and you are able to convert your ideas directly into music, you're a musician, too.

I don't know about the rest of you who have little voices, but something about mine made me feel completely compelled to listen to it.

As I look back I know that most of the mistakes I have made have come when I didn't listen to myself, when I didn't trust my instincts... I believe you need to listen, carefully, to hear your inner voice. And then, you have to do what it says.

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself.

We must attend to what our inner guidance is nudging us toward.

We don't need someone to show us the ropes. We are the ones we've been waiting for. Deep inside us we know the feelings we need to guide us. Our task is to learn to trust our inner knowing.

I listened to that voice inside me-... Everyone has an inner voice; you just have to listen to it and trust it in order to be led by it. I did that, and it gave me the ability to live a life that's true to who I am and what I really wanted.

Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything.

I think that you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's what you're going to count on. In the end, it's what feels right to you. Not what your mother told you. Not what some actress told you. Not what anybody else told you but the still, small voice.

Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.

Listen for the instruction, instead of begging for the direction.

In a recent issue of Parade Magazine when asked for "Advice for a Younger You," Glenn Close responded: "I'd tell myself to listen to my heart. Listen to that little voice that says, 'Mmm, I don't think so.' Because when you override that, you basically override who you are.

I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.

Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me; the guiding star and the loadstone which point the way. They point in but one direction. They point to me.

I will walk where my own nature would be leading.

I believe we all have the Voice of Reason inside us...to gently lead us out of our own self-created hells.

Be aware of your inner voice and follow it, even though most of the time it will tell you the most uncomfortable path to choose.