Bobby Short Quotes

"But life is tough and if you're creative, it's tougher."
- Bobby Short
(Related: Life)

"Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic."
- Bobby Short
(Related: Opera, Today, World)

"I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world."
- Bobby Short
(Related: Time, Living, World)

"If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come."
- Bobby Short
(Related: Music, People, Example, Play)