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Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.
It is not like a river, you know, the ambition of being someone very important, to be the only one, this doesn't interest me.
In the opera, a great show and beautiful costumes, and you create a character, and it is also for the public more exciting.
In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment.
I thought that it would be ridiculous for me to imitate for instance Madame Schwartskopf, it would be ridiculous.
I mean a German person would never do it like that, it would be very serious, you know, systematic, but a Spanish person it takes another kind of way.
I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
I like the word of someone that takes part, who is a singer in something very important, is to make music together.
I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
I am very conscious in what I am choosing. Maybe sometimes I put something there and I make a mistake, but it is not because I want to make a mistake.
Even the common gypsy women have a pride and reserve. They stay faithful to one man at a time, no matter what. That is my Carmen.
But it's always really difficult to find someone that has the qualities to be a great accompanist.
But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers.
But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.
And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.
After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.
When I am not desperate, I am worthless.
What does your sorrow do while you're sleeping? It is awaken and waiting. And, when it loses patience, it wakes me up.
What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.