Danielle de Niese Quotes

Danielle de Niese

Profession : Musician

Birth : April 11, 1979

My parents kept me very grounded.

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I've always considered myself to be a travelling soul. I've never felt out of place anywhere.

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Music can be a source of escapism.

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To be a famously successful opera singer. I wanted that since I was eight.

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I feel very fortunate. I feel like an Olympian. When I watch the Olympics, I cry because I have been through that journey.

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Outreach appearances in the schools are usually part of my contracts, and I love doing them.

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Music is as integral to me as my own DNA. My life has become a continual soundtrack, with music underscoring the most powerful and even the most banal moments of my life.

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I'm a huge dog person; I love to hug and kiss them.

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I spent my first 10 years in the Commonwealth. I come from cricket, crumpets, cucumber sandwiches, the Queen.

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What I see as specially English is the charm - everyone is so polite. Being restrained is part of the charm. And I love the sense of humour - it takes me back to Australia. The English are great at making fun of themselves. They're so self-effacing.

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I know there are lots of regional accents in England, but I can't tell them apart and I'm not really aware of class. I don't pay any attention to those boundaries. I'm a California girl.

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I think of myself as an Olympian. I have had a dream since I was a very small child. And because I have parents without whom I couldn't have realised that dream.

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I sang with a voice that was natural, and I liked the way I produced that sound. I thought of my other friends, that they were singing and dancing, but they didn't have this. I was special.

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My Mozart career began as a teenager in Los Angeles, singing arias from 'Le Nozze di Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni.'

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Mozart is my first strength.

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One of the things I loved about my childhood was that I didn't feel like I lost my innocence too young, like some children these days.

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I believed in Santa Claus until I was 12!

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In a fit at the bookstore one day, I bought all my favourite composers' biographies: Schubert, Massenet, Wolf. I've still not had a chance to read them; it breaks my heart. But when you travel so much, you just can't take that many books with you.

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One of my favourite books of all time: 'The Great Gatsby'. I just think it's so well written.

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My dad's in banking, my mum manages the American branch of a Swiss vitamin company; they're really busy, but they still come to all my premieres.

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