I don’t feel I’m fighting to reach this huge audience; it just happens. I go on stage before the audience arrives and look out to this vast empty house. There’s something therapeutic about taking in the ring where you’ll perform. Danielle de Niese Read Quote
I’ve always considered myself to be a travelling soul. I’ve never felt out of place anywhere. Danielle de Niese Read Quote
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. Danielle de Niese Read Quote
From my perspective, music allows me to escape from the world of what is happening right in front of me… to the world of my thoughts, my dreams, my hopes and ideas – for the world, for my own life, for the day, even for the moment. Danielle de Niese Read Quote
We can all afford to do a little soul-searching about the choices we make and the way we live our lives, but sometimes searching one’s soul doesn’t provide the answers we seek. Danielle de Niese Read Quote
Unfortunately, opera engagements tend to be made five years in advance, and I don’t really agree with that. Danielle de Niese Read Quote
I feel very fortunate. I feel like an Olympian. When I watch the Olympics, I cry because I have been through that journey. Danielle de Niese Read Quote
