Polly Bergen Quotes

I have vocal trouble from time to time associated with sleep or wine! Or from sleeping in a bunk the size of a coffin and breathing in bus air conditioning all day.

Age 50 is a lot tougher than 40s.

Haven't we all been taken aback when an illness suddenly causes the voice to crack and sometimes dry up completely?

When you approach middle age, lots of stuff happens. Your body is aging, you're watching people around you get sick, you're watching people die, your mortality becomes very present at that point in your life.

A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing, and a general sense of giddiness when the matter of rent is brought up. Forty is Life's Golden Age.

The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.

I started turning 40 at 38. I had pains all over my body. I couldn't sleep, I had rampant anxiety, and I couldn't stop eating and drinking.

I lost my voice for the first time. I was so bummed out, but it happens to every singer at some point in their career. I don't think most people understand, but I sing every night and sometimes we do five shows in a row, which is really bad for your voice.

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

When I turned 50, I said to myself, well, if this is what it's like turning 50, I can't wait to turn 60 because I still felt very, very mentally and physically good, outside my back surgery.

I was hurting. I had some ailments I was dealing with. It's not like I was holding out.

When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.

I've been diagnosed with what's called vocal tension dysphonia. The muscles around my vocal chords kind of constrict my vocal chords from doing what they should do. It's kinda like being a body builder and you have muscles that are so large that they don't allow you to have flexibility, if that makes sense.

I still think I'm 28. I'm 73. I think I'm 28, though, except that I won't get into a fight with anybody because I just had a pacemaker put in.

I've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've had bruised vocal chords and nodules.

People comment on my voice. They always ask me if I'm ill.

I don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

I have health challenges, I have life challenges, just like everyone else.

The main thing is, I can't stay up late partying when I'm on tour. That's not good for my voice or my health in general.

You know, your voice can only last for so long. It's a muscle and when you get older it sort of fades away.

I've always been aware of mortality because I've always had ill health most of my life.

I've gone through a lot as far as health.

It's an irony that with the physical decline of age comes more mental wellbeing. It's life's cruel trick. You've settled down as a person, you feel happier with who you are, and then you get a massive swollen prostate and have to go for a test every two weeks. It's life's way of saying the struggle isn't over.

I already have a very low, raspy voice for a girl. When I'm sick, it sounds even raspier.