Opera Quotes - Page 27

• I heard a lot of different kinds of music. I heard country music, I heard jazz, I heard symphonic music, opera, everything you can think of except very modern music.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Country, Thinking, Different

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• Yeah, unfortunately [ films like Miss Julie are a dying breed]. And that is sad, because we need these. Like we need books, we need classical music, we need ballet, we need opera, to remind us really of who we are and why we are, and we need in movie houses - even to be in a movie - where you sit and see not only excitement and man-hero, woman-hero, you need quietly, just like that Hawking movie we talked about, to know how people overcome.

  Liv Ullmann

  Book, Hero, Men

  Source: www.themarysue.com

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• Now of course like, you know fancy go to the opera and see drama and they regard them as high culture. And these, are really people for the most part who get uptighter. The idea that people you know might take their clothes off and dance in the street.

  Howard Rheingold

  Drama, Ideas, Clothes

  Source: medium.com

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• A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime.

  Renee Fleming

  House, Want, Singers

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• What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.

  Ian Mcewan

  Running, Two, Savages

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

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• And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement. To spend a Saturday afternoon mopping your kitchen floor while listening to opera on the radio, and to go that night to an Indian restaurant with a friend and be home by nine o'clock - these are enough. They are gifts.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Home, Night, Appreciate

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• I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, 'Do you think you could give me that?' That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I'm really far into this now, really committed. Like, I don't think I'd go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it's the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn't it?

  Janis Joplin

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.

  Edward Abbey

  Hate, People, Musical

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.40, RosettaBooks

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• Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama -- soap opera with literary trimmings.

  Edward Abbey

  Drama, Book, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.48, RosettaBooks

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• For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra plays the prelude to the third act, the stage is far away as in a dream, my heart swells with delight—and you want to blind me with a pair of half-ruble spectacles?

  Isaac Babel

  Dream, Heart, Play

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• New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime, echoes of traditional African drumming, and all of the dance styles that went with this music could be heard and seen throughout the city. When all of these kinds of music blended into one, jazz was born.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Military, Echoes, New Orleans

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• Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out.

  Julian Fellowes

  Christmas, Character, Car

  "More Season 3 Conversation With ‘Downton Abbey’ Creator Julian Fellowes". Interview With Dave Itzkoff, artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. February 19, 2013.

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• It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.

  David Hockney

  Drawing, Design, Fax

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• Strictly cop and go's until we laid in the Galapagos
  Eating tacos, higher than an opera note

  Action Bronson

  Hip Hop, Tacos, Cop

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• The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign that he approves the carnal husk or enjoys gnawing through it.

  H. L. Mencken

  Music, Singing, May

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.545, Vintage

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• I want to be known by people who are knowledgeable about opera, who appreciate bel canto singing, people who have more sensitivity.

  Alfredo Kraus

  People, Appreciate, Singing

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• We all know that men in moderate circumstances can have just as comfortable houses as the richest, just as comfortable clothing, just as good food. They can see just as fine paintings, just as marvelous statues, and they can hear just as good music. They can attend the same theaters and the same operas. They can enjoy the same sunshine, and above all, can love and be loved just as well as kings and millionaires.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Money, Kings, Sunshine

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1902). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Miscellany”

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• I went out to testify in front of the Ways and Means Committee out in Congress on open free trade to China. Now, this would affect literally every Minnesotan in some way or another, if not all Americans in some way or another....The local media sent no one out to cover my testimony....Well, then a couple weeks later, I go out to do The Young and the Restless, the TV soap opera, and everybody sends crews. We had to move them into a room in three different sections or three shifts of them because there was so much media covering that.

  Jesse Ventura

  Couple, Moving, Mean

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• Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.

  Ned Rorem

  Ballet, Musical

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• Ayn Rand called her novella Anthem a "hymn to man's ego." My approach to Anthem the play was to provide the story a further dimension through music and sound. The work is now larger than a hymn. It's really "spoken opera."

  Jeff Britting

  Men, Play, Hymns

  Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com

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• To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama.

  Junichiro Koizumi

  Beautiful, Drama, Lying

  Junichiro Koizumi (2003). “Japan and ASEAN in East Asia: A Sincere and Open Partnership”, p.13, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

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• 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

  Want, Aviation, Notes

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• Opera needs to be a total escape from real life. To relate to what we're going through today is fine and dandy, but it's really about being transported and completely swept away by a romantic notion.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Real, Needs, Today

  "Rufus Wainwright on Passion, Opera and Taking Care of the Earth". Interview with Kristi York Wooten, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.

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• Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.

  China Forbes

  Inspiration, Soul, Particular

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• I looked at the job of piano accompanist. It's a selfless position and generally they are odd people, according to opera singers I talked to. Just like everybody else, they want more from their life, but now their job is to make others shine.

  Simon Helberg

  Jobs, Piano, People

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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