Opera Singing Quotes

• No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

  W. H. Auden

  Funny, Music, People

  Quoted in Time, 29 Dec 1961.

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• Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  People, Opera, Singers

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• The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.

  Maria Jeritza

  Lying, Real, Singing

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• In opera, there is always too much singing.

  Claude Debussy

  Funny, Music, Piano

  "Debussy". Book by Paul Holmes, 1989.

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• There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.

  Josh Groban

  Funny, Stars, Rocks

  VH1.com, November 23, 2003.

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• Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

  Richard Wagner

  Music, Looks, Composer

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• But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.

  Adam Johnson

  Jobs, Character, Korea

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• Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

  Tony Curtis

  Song, Opera, Singers

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• I told Hugh Hefner, "I have this crazy boyfriend." And Hef was like, "You're not going anywhere with a crazy boyfriend," and so he put me in a mansion in Bel-Air with an opera singing Chinese maid, and I was driving a Bentley, and a friend of mine came by and was like, "What is going on? Why are you living in this mansion?" And I was like, "Isn't this what happens when people move to LA?

  Pamela Anderson

  Crazy, Moving, Air

  "Pamela Anderson on Hair Cuts and Hugh Hefner" by Jessica Pressler, www.elle.com. March 19, 2014.

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• As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.

  Zola Jesus

  Children, Emotional, Voice

  Interview with Elliott Sharp, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2011.

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• Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of studies, attempts, flights of the spirit.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Real, Singing, Opera

  "Opera Star Andrea Bocelli On Finishing His Master’s And His ‘Passion For Life’". Interview with Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2013.

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• In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists. The entire course of study has confirmed what I already thought, that the value and meaning of opera singing, at the beginning of the third millennium, remain intact.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Teacher, Singing, Opera

  "Opera Star Andrea Bocelli On Finishing His Master’s And His ‘Passion For Life’". Interview with Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2013.

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• I guess I've done a lot of different kinds of performing at various times - opera singing, poetry reading, not least high school teaching - and I do enjoy it, at least sometimes. But I find it incredibly anxiety-producing and exhausting. Privacy is more congenial, and I go a little crazy if I can't spend a big chunk of every day, or almost every day, alone. Certainly I have to be alone to write.

  Garth Greenwell

  Crazy, Teaching, Reading

  Source: therumpus.net

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