What All Musicians Must Know to Succeed
by Sheila E. Anderson
quotes Paula M. Kimper:

"...say you decide to switch genres; I don't think of it as a decision before it happens, it is almost like it happens, then you decide to follow it. It feels like you are being shuttled through a process and you never know where it will lead...you just know it will lead somewhere."

"Discipline...you gotta love it. You can't force yourself to be disciplined."

"You learn as you go. You have to use someone else's experience to help you teach yourself. I think everyone has to be self-taught."

"The downside of attempting something new in opera is the expectation of the audience. They say they want to hear something avant-garde, but then if it's too avant-garde, they don't consider it opera. And if the music is too standard, then it's not avant-garde enough."

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