Opera Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• 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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• When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.

  John Ruskin

  Sweet, Destiny, Wind

  John Ruskin, Charles Eliot Norton, John Lewis Bradley, Ian Ousby (1987). “The Correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton”, p.79, Cambridge University Press

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• If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Funny, Humorous, Belief

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• You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.

  Neil Young

  Song, Stars, Rocks

  Song: Opera Star, Album: Re-ac-tor

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• Everyone has their own taste: some like theatre, some don't, some like opera, some don't, some like pantomimes, and some don't.

  Clive Rowe

  Theatre, Taste, Pantomime

  Interview with Ryan Ormonde, www.londoncalling.com. November 21, 2015.

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• Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.

  Paul Virilio

  Art, Reality, Sculpture

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Writing an opera and premiering in England, you could say I was going right into the eye of the storm and I came out successfully. A little tattered and bruised, but so what, I made it.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Writing, Eye, Storm

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• The Hitch Hiker's Guide has not been an opera. It has however been a tapestry, if you count a woven bath towel as a tapestry.

  Douglas Adams

  Woven, Towels, Baths

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• I think opera music is very conservative, and Rock and Roll music is conservative as well, and that's why I'm trying to make a bridge between these two elements.

  Klaus Nomi

  Thinking, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• Most of my escapades were getting my Labrador dog into the back of my car to drive to Brooklyn where I worked at Avenue M Studios shooting a soap opera and battling being a 17 to 18-year-old playing twins being afraid that I was going to get fired, because who wouldn't fire me? I had no idea what I was doing.

  Anne Heche

  Dog, Fire, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• I want to make these films that I think other people would be scared to do. I don't think anyone can go off and make a rock opera. I think it's a very specific niche.

  Darren Lynn Bousman

  Thinking, Rocks, People

  Source: collider.com

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• The only thing that really inspired me for singing was the movie and musical 'Phantom of the Opera.' I went to see it in the theaters, and I loved it so much. And when I got home, I started singing the songs around the house, and my mom thought I was really good, so she asked me if I wanted to do a talent competition. And I said, 'Yes, definitely.'

  Jackie Evancho

  Mom, Song, Home

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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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• 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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