Opera famous quotes
05-15-2025
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Strictly cop and go's until we laid in the Galapagos Eating tacos, higher than an opera note
-- Action Bronson -
The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
-- Alan Hirsch -
I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.
-- Alvar Aalto -
The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers. I am honoured for being part of their group.
-- Andrea Bocelli -
I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.
-- Anthony Davis -
I was on the soap opera 'Days of our Lives.
-- Ashley Benson -
Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere.
-- Barry Bostwick -
In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
-- Baz Luhrmann -
I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.
-- Benjamin Britten -
I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy.
-- Bernard Haitink -
You could live without the opera singer, but not without the services of the baker. On this ground you might say that the baker performs a greater service; but no lover of music would agree.
-- Bertrand Russell -
The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
-- Bette Midler -
So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.
-- Beverly Sills -
Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.
-- Bobby Short -
The earth was once molten rock and now sings operas.
-- Brian Swimme -
There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.
-- Bruce Springsteen -
Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.
-- C. L. R. James -
It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good
-- Cab Calloway -
It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
-- Carlisle Floyd -
If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.
-- Carlisle Floyd -
When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is.
-- Carlisle Floyd -
The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.
-- Carlisle Floyd -
Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
-- Carlisle Floyd -
I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put out an hour show in one day.
-- Catherine Mary Stewart -
We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.
-- Cecilia Bartoli -
I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.
-- Cecilia Bartoli -
I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read.
-- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro -
For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.
-- Chester Bennington -
I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with Soundgarden at Voodoo Fest, all in a week.
-- Chris Cornell -
For a while, I couldn't decide whether or not I should pursue singing in the opera or acting. And I'm glad that I chose the latter because I wasn't a very good singer.
-- Christoph Waltz -
I did radio, I did television, I did opera, I did films in which I had very, very little to say. But I had a lot of experience in front of the camera, and that's what really counts
-- Christopher Lee -
some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
-- Dan Stevens -
The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.
-- Dario Argento -
Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't influenced by European music!
-- Dave Brubeck -
I'm not very well organized unless I'm plugged into a structure like the opera or a movie. When I'm doing that, I have to be organized.
-- David Cronenberg -
For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great opera.
-- David Rubenstein -
Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.
-- Diane Paulus -
The opera isn't over until the fat lady sings.
-- Dick Motta -
Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.
-- Don Rickles -
I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.
-- Dorothy Malone -
It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera.
-- Doug Davidson -
If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.
-- Douglas Coupland -
Almost everyone admits to hunger during the Opera.... Hunger is so exalting that during a last act you practically levitate.
-- Elizabeth Bowen -
Dictatorship is always merely an aria, never an opera.
-- Emil Ludwig -
I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.
-- Emmy Rossum -
My dream is to be played everywhere, not only at the Opera.
-- Erik Satie -
I tend to sing opera and showtunes in the shower. I don't know why, but when I get in the shower I turn into this big fat opera lady.
-- Ester Dean -
All My Children' taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera!
-- Eva LaRue -
When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - its beyond belief.
-- Eve Best -
I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.
-- Famke Janssen -
I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.
-- Ford Frick -
I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services.
-- Franz Liszt -
I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.
-- Fred Saberhagen -
I've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD.
-- Gemma Arterton -
Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it to the public.
-- Giacomo Puccini -
Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
-- Gian Carlo Menotti -
One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.
-- Gioachino Rossini -
How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
-- Gioachino Rossini -
The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor or a prima donna.
-- Giuseppe Verdi -
It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?
-- Gordon Bethune -
An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.
-- Gustav Mahler -
My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
-- Harrison Birtwistle -
My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
-- Harrison Birtwistle -
The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
-- Harrison Birtwistle -
My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
I've been trying to find a redeeming feature to Palpatine, and the only one I've got so far is that he's clearly a patron of the arts because he goes to the opera.
-- Ian McDiarmid -
Are you implying that our relationship is like a Spanish soap opera?†“I’m not implying. I’m saying it.
-- Ilona Andrews -
You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.
-- Irvin S. Cobb -
You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.
-- Isaac Mizrahi -
What is the source of power of musicians who are financially browbeaten, most of whom work for minimum wage or less? Musicians who cannot even afford to buy tickets to operas or concerts in which they themselves perform?
-- Itay Talgam -
I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.
-- Jack Wagner -
Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.
-- Jacqueline Novogratz -
If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.
-- Jaime Winstone -
Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
-- Jasper Fforde -
The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn’t understand. And it ended in tragedy.
-- Jeff MacNelly -
I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined Id be in a soap opera.
-- Jencarlos Canela -
Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
-- Joan Baez -
Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow me to act and still do other things with my life.
-- Joe Lando -
The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.
-- John Marshall -
Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
-- John Philip Sousa -
Soap operas are such a great way to break-in to the industry. The diminishing landscape of daytime TV means its going to be harder for young talent to get discovered.
-- Josh Duhamel -
The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera.
-- Josh Lanyon -
I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.
-- Joyce Maynard -
As a teenager I studied opera, believe it or not. But I just couldn't catch on to it.
-- Karen Black -
Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.
-- Kassie DePaiva -
I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.
-- Katherine Jenkins -
People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible.
-- Katherine Jenkins -
Soap operas got nothing on my family history.
-- Kiersten White -
Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute.
-- Kiri Te Kanawa -
To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.
-- Lesley Garrett -
As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always a great way to get more of the public to connect with classical music, and opera particularly.
-- Lesley Garrett -
I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time.
-- Lesley Garrett
