Sopranos Quotes - Page 4

• I've been watching more American TV because of all the great TV series that have come out in the last five to 10 years. I'm a 'Sopranos' fan, I'm a 'Wire' fan, I'm a 'Mad Men' fan. I'm a 'Deadwood' fan. It makes me optimistic for the future of storytelling on TV that producers are willing to take that kind of jump.

  Jo Nesbo

  Optimistic, Men, Years

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• I had already been a young singer. And once, as a profession, I was a young singer, what you would call a soprano in England, but I was an alto in singing Jewish music in bar mitzvahs and weddings and synagogues throughout New York City because, after Israel, New York is probably the biggest Jewish community in the world.

  Charlemagne Palestine

  New York, Israel, Cities

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I know it was a gift from God. My father was a preacher and my mother worked in churches all her life. My father had a very deep bass sounding voice and my mother had an in-between soprano voice. Not great singers, but they had great tones to their voices. I think that had a lot to do with it. Also, I really believe my voice was a gift from God. I believe if you take care of it, He will help you take care of it.

  Darlene Love

  Mother, Father, Believe

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• That show, The Sopranos put HBO on the map. So there I was - and then there I wasn't. Too bad. The same thing happened to me on Prison Break: I got the role of the governor on that, and then a handful of episodes later, I hanged myself.

  John Heard

  Prison, Break, Things Happen

  Source: tv.avclub.com

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• Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Strong, Boys, Voice

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• Switch to piano! No. Really, if you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. Of course, it would be best if you could actually sing with your own voice. The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. Therefore, the challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument or 'voice' that is outside of your body. I love that challenge and have for over forty-five years. As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

  Stan Getz

  Art, Piano, Years

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• Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Opera, Tenors

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.41, RosettaBooks

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• What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks romance. I think women's roles have gotten ghettoized in these sort of places... I'm thinking women in action, comic books, or like the Tony Soprano of women. We need some complex roles.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Book, Thinking, Talking

  "'Twilight' screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg talks Kristen Stewart, Bill Condon and 'Breaking Dawn'". Interview with Matt Donnelly, latimesblogs.latimes.com. June 14, 2010.

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• I suppose my forcefulness will improve once my voice changes. Sopranos get no respect.

  Patricia Grasso

  Voice, No Respect

  Patricia Grasso (2006). “Seducing the prince”

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• Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.

  Peter Shaffer

  Couple, Stupid, Eye

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• They're naughty, all those writers - they mess around with people. I know James Gandolfini got a bit fed up on 'The Sopranos': if he said anything in front of a writer, told them a story from his life, it could make its way into the script.

  Kelly Macdonald

  Naughty, People, Stories

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• I really wanted to be an opera soprano.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Opera, Wanted

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• The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.

  Stan Getz

  Challenges, Body, Saxophone

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• A soprano in Massenet's Don Quixote complained that she had missed her entry in the aria, "because Mr. Challiapin always dies too soon." "Madam, you must be profoundly in error," said Sir Thomas, "No operatic star has yet died half soon enough for me."

  Thomas Beecham

  Stars, Errors, Soon Enough

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• After The Sopranos, my mother said, "Couldn't there be some raft floating under the bridge when you jumped? Or couldn't you have a twin brother?" I said, "Yeah, if they'd wanted me that bad. But they don't."

  John Heard

  Mother, Brother, Twins

  Source: tv.avclub.com

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• It's a crazy soprano, and singing as a man as a woman. But for many years, I was on the road in Chicago as Mary Sunshine, so I can do that. I didn't think there was any way I was going to get it - it was so far out of my comfort-zone.

  Max von Essen

  Crazy, Sunshine, Men

  "Max Von Essen: High-Notes in High-Heels". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. January 14, 2008.

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• I never knew what Amazon was. I've never seen any of those series, even on cable. I've never seen The Sopranos, or Mad Men. I'm out every night and when I come home, I watch the end of the baseball or basketball game, and there's Charlie Rose and I go to sleep.

  Woody Allen

  Basketball, Baseball, Sleep

  "Woody Allen On ‘Irrational Man’, His Movies & Hollywood’s Perilous Path – Cannes Q&A". Interview with Mike Fleming Jr, deadline.com. May 14, 2015.

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• In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do on the soprano.

  Evan Parker

  Two, Mind, Different

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• I'm not one of these people who say how much better American drama is than English. I find it mostly too American, except for The Sopranos, which I think is the best thing.

  Andrew Davies

  Drama, Thinking, People

  "This much I know". Interview with Catriona O'Shaughnessy, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2006.

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• When you think of things like The Sopranos, The Wire, Damages, they are beating film on a regular basis. Most films are terrible. It's only the 2% that are good. There's things you can do on TV which you can't do on film. There is something about those episodic, serialisations that are grand and operatic.

  Ricky Gervais

  Thinking, Wire, Damage

  "Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant ('The Ricky Gervais Show')". Interview with Alex Fletcher, www.digitalspy.com. April 15, 2010.

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• Opera was an enormous part of my childhood. My parents were both opera buffs, and they met in the box seat of an opera performance. And I also was a boy soprano, so before puberty hit, I was onstage playing a wide variety of orphans and urchins in all sorts of operas, and the sheer melodrama of their stories was just always appealing to me.

  Daniel Handler

  Boys, Childhood, Parent

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• Who the hell uses a burner cell phone when they're not trying to hide something? [..] Only dope dealers, and Hell's Angels, and Tony Soprano use burner cell phones.

  Pat Martin

  Angel, Dope, Phones

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• I was a boy soprano. I had a natural kind of voice and then trained it after my voice changed.

  Len Cariou

  Boys, Voice, Kind

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• I was on a show called '12 Miles of Bad Road' with Lily Tomlin - it was an incredible HBO show. We shot 6 episodes, previewed it before the finale of 'The Sopranos;' it was written up as a 'Great New Show on HBO,' and then the whole thing was canned. Gone. Disappeared. That's when I realized anything can happen in this business.

  Eliza Coupe

  Hbo, Gone, Lilies

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.

  David Chase

  Mafia, Ridiculous, Sociopath

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