Sing for Your Life Quotes

“The antidote to color, to all the crap going through the minds of the people behind that casting table, is to sing so well that people go, Oh shit. You have to overcome the visual. You have to make the visual irrelevant. You have to overcome aurally. I knocked it out of the park in certain roles, and people suddenly thought, Where’s this guy been? Well, I’ve been right here, incognegro.”
― Daniel Bergner, Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family

“depending on whether the score called for forte or pianissimo. He smiled, laughing for a second at the scope of the task. He relished the specificity of the work.”
― Daniel Bergner, Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family