Author of quotes: Irina Konstantinovna Arkhipova

If a young singer can demonstrate the evenness of sound, express the deep meaning and significance of a work, convey the restrained and noble style of classical music, he is truly a promising master. Vocal competitions immediately reveal this.

Joy and sorrow go hand in hand in life.

What do we have now? TV, which "drive" the music that seems to be the music of television bosses? They simply "adjust" it to their taste (brought up in our schools) and impose it on millions. There is such a feeling (yes, no! already a conviction!) that there is a purposeful brainwashing of the people by broadcasting the same thing on all channels - no, not music, but its rhythmic surrogate. To this “pop music” (what an idiotic, primitive word, but very often used now) it’s good to dance and twitch, but not from morning to evening - you have to work sometime. “The soul is obliged to work,” the poet said wonderfully. And it is the classics that make the soul work, educate and enlighten it, or rather, enlighten it ... Melody! Where can you find it in this noise stream pouring through the ether?

Much in a person is laid in childhood. It's good if good things are laid.

Memories are memories, but one must live in the present and the future, and plans and dreams are good because they can be implemented.

Art is long-lived, human life is short. And you have to hurry in order to have time to do as much as possible. And for this you need the main thing - enough time.

Classical music is not at all spectacular on the outside, all its virtues and significance are inside. Despite such apparent simplicity, it is not easy to sing it and not everyone can do it. Strict, noble, this music requires from the performer his own inner content, spiritual maturity, it sort of raises you to its own level.

There would be a desire, but you can learn a lot, most importantly, what? Here a person chooses for himself - what his mind, heart, conscience tells him ...