Opera Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• 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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• 'Macbeth' is one of the best operas ever, and doing it was a great experience. I added some things to the opera based from my experience on the movie - such as some of the special effects and bits of film - to make it new and interesting. It was a very good work and a very good experience.

  Dario Argento

  Interesting, Special, Film

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• If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.

  Thomas Beecham

  Immortality, Achieve, Organs

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• For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.

  Johannes Brahms

  Delight, Shallow, Matrimony

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• Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  Used, Wagner, Glad

  Ralph Vaughan Williams (1987). “National Music: And Other Essays”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I think I'm aware of entering my late 30s versus being in my late 20s, when the web was coming out as this new thing. It reminds me of how people used to tell me about my great-grandmother and how they used to gather around a radio listening to soap operas.

  Kalup Linzy

  Grandmother, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For more than 13,000 days on the run, my life was a soap opera.

  Ronald Biggs

  Running, Soap, Soap Operas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In a way, being an opera singer is like being a very romantic sixteen-year-old who falls in love with great passion and conviction every month.

  Renee Fleming

  Falling In Love, Passion, Years

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• I am singing in an operatic voice for the public, to bring something more to Rock and Roll. Because in a Rock and Roll performance, the singer talks to the public whereas in Opera the singer only talks to a character, inside a story. The public sees this as a picture, I want to transport this picture into the room where the public is.

  Klaus Nomi

  Character, Rock And Roll, Voice

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• Cathedrals are built with pennies of the faithful. A great opera house also is a spiritual center, a temple of sorts, where many gather together for recreation, education, and inspiration - a blessed trinity worthy of public support.

  Eleanor Robson Belmont

  Spiritual, Blessed, Inspiration

  Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”

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• Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or by stage directors, never by musicians.

  Laurence Equilbey

  Running, House, Musician

  "There Will Be Joy". Interview with Lydia Perović, logger.believermag.com. August 1, 2013.

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• I wouldn't know anything about opera music if it wasn't for Bugs Bunny. That was my entire introduction to opera music. I wouldn't know anything about classical music if it wasn't for "Fantasia." They didn't have to do that stuff. They chose to base this ridiculous, funny, intriguing, creative story on this beautiful classical music. It's the combination of the high and the low that I thought was very cool. But I had no concept of it as a kid.

  Jon Hamm

  Beautiful, Kids, Creative

  "MINIONS: Allison Janney and Jon Hamm Talk Animation, Their Characters, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 9, 2015.

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• I remember someone once saying, "Pete, you know you really should take voice lessons." And I said, "Well, if I could find any voice teacher that could teach me to sing like Lead Belly I'd spend every cent to study under him." But every time you'd go to a voice teacher, he'd teach you to warble, as if you'd want to be an opera singer, and that's not what I'm interested in.

  Pete Seeger

  Teacher, Voice, Lessons

  Source: www.folkmusicworldwide.com

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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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