"I have this intense drive to create. I didn't get into opera because of opera. I got into opera because I have a big voice and a lot to say."
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"Both Price and Bonds were teachers and fierce advocates for inclusion at a time when it was hardly popular."
"If anyone has experienced grief, we all know that this brings out the best and the worst in people around you."
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"I feel proud that he might really approve. I would love it if he would give me notes because his notes are so great."
This is the only way I can do this. I have to be honest. I want to make the audience feel with me. We are living this together."
"I'm hoping the play makes you fall in love with all those old movies and the images they created, but it also explores the detrimental impact that had on the participants in the machine."
"I want to go someplace I've never been before. And I want to take an audience someplace they've never been before."
"I think for composers, you know your child better than everybody. You created it. But the child still has facets that you don't know and that will always be the case."