Opera Quotes - Page 9

• Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Writing, Philanthropy, Checks

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• My chance, when it came, was due, literally, to the fact that I was slender.... You cannot make an opera audience believe that a man will endanger his soul, and commit robbery and murder for a very stout lady's sake.

  Maria Jeritza

  Believe, Men, Soul

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• I've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD.

  Gemma Arterton

  Dvds

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• New York. It's home to opera, Broadway, museums, the ballet and orchestra - everything that I love. The most real people in the world live there.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  New York, Real, Home

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• I am a middle-aged opera queen in loafers that makes out I am a 16 year old death metal skater... It's all fake! My hair is fake, my body is fake and my teeth are kind of fake

  Rick Owens

  Queens, Hair, Years

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• Boswell, when he speaks of his Life of Johnson, calls it my magnum opus, but it may more properly be called his opera, for it is truly a composition founded on a true story, in which there is a hero with a number of subordinate characters, and an alternate succession of recitative and airs of various tone and effect, all however in delightful animation.

  James Boswell

  Hero, Character, Air

  James Boswell, Marlies K. Danziger (1989). “Boswell, the great biographer, 1789-1795”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Dictatorship is always merely an aria, never an opera.

  Emil Ludwig

  Government, Aria, Dictatorship

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• King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us.

  Mason Cooley

  Love, Kings, Phantoms

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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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• Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into an opera of bracing suspense. The game will threaten never to end, until suddenly it forces you to marvel at how it came to be where it is and to wonder at how far it might go. It’s the drowsy metamorphosis of the dull into the indescribable.

  Joshua Ferris

  Beautiful, Baseball, Games

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• I'm not very well organized unless I'm plugged into a structure like the opera or a movie. When I'm doing that, I have to be organized.

  David Cronenberg

  Structure, Wells, Organized

  "Exclusive: David Cronenberg Knows What Defamer Is And Still Lets Us Interview Him". Defamer Interview, gawker.com. September 02, 2008.

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• Truths that startled the generation in which they were first announced become in the next age the commonplaces of conversation; as the famous airs of operas which thrilled the first audiences come to be played on hand-organs in the streets.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Hands, Air, Age

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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• Almost everyone admits to hunger during the Opera.... Hunger is so exalting that during a last act you practically levitate.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Lasts, Hunger

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• I love comedy and drama equally and music too. I just sort of follow my nose to whatever seems really exciting at the time. Eventually, I might want to do a rock opera.

  Jack Black

  Drama, Rocks, Noses

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey, how come you're a jazz person, and you're making a pop opera?

  Laurie Anderson

  Artist, Hey, Jazz

  "Laurie Anderson on scuplting sounds with Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel and her unique duet machine", daily.redbullmusicacademy.com.

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• The aria, after all, is the soul of opera.

  Richard Strauss

  Soul, Aria

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• When you work on a soap opera, that's three years of you working every day. There was no time to do anything other than the soap opera - you're locked in.

  Nathan Fillion

  Years, Three, Soap

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. March 9, 2009.

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• Are you suggesting that we reopen the Opera with a murder as an added attraction?

  Eric Taylor

  Murder, Suggesting, Attraction

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• Flawless . . . Tightly choreographed . . . Shipstead gains entry into exclusive worlds and trains her opera glasses on private social rituals, as well as behind-the-scenes hanky panky . . . Similar to classic ballet, the power of Astonish Me arises out of the pairing of a melodramatic storyline with scrupulously executed range of movement . . . Shipstead sweeps you into this insider world of sweat, narcissism, and short-lived magic . . . Transcendent.

  Maureen Corrigan

  Glasses, Sweat, Ballet

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• Why does one never hear of government funding for the preservation and encouragement of comic strips, girlie magazines and TV soap operas? Because these genres still hold the audience they were created to amuse and instruct.

  John Updike

  Encouragement, Government, Soap

  1985 In the New York Review of Books, 18 Jul.

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• I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers.

  Peter Robinson

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Order, House, Pleasure

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• If you love music hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light; brings him into a great deal of bad company; and takes up a great deal of time, which might be much better employed.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Music, Play, Light

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• I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera.

  Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

  Ideas, People, Inspired

  "The Essential Canon of Classical Music". Book by David Dubal, 2003.

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• My message is to forget about dichotomies. The Brain Opera is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in the usual way. It is a psychological journey with voices - so I do consider it an opera.

  Tod Machover

  Journey, Voice, Brain

  Scientific American Interview, www.scientificamerican.com.

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