Opera Quotes - Page 19

• My family were symphonic musicians and in the opera. Also, it was my era, the love of radio. We used to listen to the radio at night, close our eyes and see movies far more beautiful than you can photograph.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Beautiful, Eye, Night

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• I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

  Steve Martin

  Art, Ballet, Looks

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• excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'i'm afraid i'm becoming ridiculous

  Leo Tolstoy

  Hands, Opposites, Glasses

  LEO TOLSTOY (1961). “ANNA KARENINA”

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• Look!You want to see? See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik's face! Now you know the face of the voice! You were not content to hear me, eh? You wanted to know what I looked like? Oh, you women are so inquisitive! Well, are you satisfied? I'm a good-looking fellow, eh?...When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me.She loves me forever! I am a kind of Don Juan, you know!...Look at me! I am Don Juan Triumphant! -Erik in The Phantom of the Opera

  Gaston Leroux

  Eye, Voice, Forever

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• Well, basically there are two sorts of opera," said Nanny, who also had the true witch's ability to be confidently expert on the basis of no experience whatsoever. "There's your heavy opera, where basically people sing foreign and it goes like "Oh oh oh, I am dyin', oh I am dyin', oh oh oh, that's what I'm doin'", and there's your light opera, where they sing in foreign and it basically goes "Beer! Beer! Beer! Beer! I like to drink lots of beer!", although sometimes they drink champagne instead. That's basically all of opera, reely.

  Terry Pratchett

  Beer, Light, Two

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Maskerade: (Discworld Novel 18)”, p.155, Random House

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• I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Lying, Romance, Doe

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2008). “The Lunatic Cafe: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.176, Penguin

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• (Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them?

  Victor Borge

  Piano, Shapes, Singers

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• 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

  Hands, Tenors, Conductor

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• Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochoda’s voice recalls Richard Price, Junot Diaz, and even Alice Sebold, yet it’s indelibly her own.

  Dennis Lehane

  Pain, Ivy, Voice

  "Visitation Street". Book by Ivy Pochoda, 2013.

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• For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.

  Chester Bennington

  Thinking, Records, Firsts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Classic, Century, Baroque Music

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• Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.

  Erik Satie

  Moving, Character, Atmosphere

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• My dream is to be played everywhere, not only at the Opera.

  Erik Satie

  Dream

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• I can't sing a lick but that's nobody's business. God listens when I sing to Him and He thinks I am an opera star.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Stars, Thinking, I Can

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• I hate the opera. I think I must have a tin ear. No matter how hard I concentrate it still sounds like a bunch of Italian chefs screaming risotto recipes at each other.

  Aristotle Onassis

  Hate, Thinking, Italian

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• The earth was once molten rock and now sings operas.

  Brian Swimme

  Rocks, Earth

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• Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera!

  Brian Swimme

  Rocks, Years, Earth

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• Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.

  Method Man

  Book, Eight, Years

  FaceBook post by Method Man from Aug 19, 2015

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• A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hear the wit of the words. And a cabaret song gives the singer room to act, more even than an opera singer.

  James Fenton

  Song, Voice, Giving

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• I've often said that the only thing I can change with magick is my­self. I believe that. Whatever changes I wish to effect with magick, the first and only thing that will be directly changed by my magical operation will be me. Once I am changed, then the new changed me will then somehow affect or attract the desired object of my opera­tion.

  Lon Milo DuQuette

  Believe, Self, Wish

  Lon Milo DuQuette (2011). “Low Magick: It's All In Your Head ... You Just Have No Idea How Big Your Head Is”, p.27, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.

  Sarah Caldwell

  Color, Voice, Illusion

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• Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose is chaste and lyrical without being self- conscious: it is a relief to encounter writing as quietly stylish as this. I was not totally convinced by Lurie's musical abilities, with regard to his proposed opera, but that is my sole complaint.

  Paul Bailey

  Writing, Self, Musical Ability

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• Robert Duvall taught me years ago. He said, "You know theatre is not real. I don't like plays." You know, he doesn't like plays. And I agree with him in certain ways, you know. They can be fun. I don't mind going to see them. I went and saw Phantom of the Opera. I thought hey, that's cool. Look at the mask and all that.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Fun, Real, Years

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up.

  Chaka Khan

  Mother, Father, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Cameras, Television, Radio

  "Listen Back To A 1990 Interview With Actor Christopher Lee". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. June 12, 2015.

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