My mom worked as a pharmacist, but she is one of the best storytellers I know. My sister is a gospel and… — Tunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some… — Bruce Beresford Copy Share Image
When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was… — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
I had always been interested in opera, going back to my college days at Carnegie Mellon. In my last year there, I… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
If you think that there are actually covers that we haven't done on 'Glee' that I could then put on an album...… — Lea Michele Copy Share Image
I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't… — Cheryl Mendelson Copy Share Image
For awhile I taped soap operas and watched them at night when I thought I might be forgetting what it was like… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
I have almost no memory of my parents ever speaking to each other. They split up on bad terms. I assumed that's… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
“Floating, falling, sweet intoxication. Touch me, trust me, savor each sensation. Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in to… — Charles Hart Copy Share Image
My message is to forget about dichotomies. The 'Brain Opera' is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got… — Jo Stafford Copy Share Image
You could almost write an opera about the selection of music directors for orchestras. The intrigues are really interesting, and then, at… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would write an opera, maybe because of the words. But yes, I would be really excited to… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
I'm just a normal person. It's not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are about completely other things.… — Anna Netrebko Copy Share Image
I don't know what draws these other composers to opera, but for me, it's just this incredibly rich medium for storytelling. And… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
Ayn Rand called her novella Anthem a "hymn to man's ego." My approach to Anthem the play was to provide the story… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
I would like to see more African-American singers as part of our opera companies. If you take music and the arts out… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
I started working in front of the camera for the first time when I was 15 years old. I joined a soap… — Paul Wesley Copy Share Image
Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
Soap operas are such a great way to break-in to the industry. The diminishing landscape of daytime TV means its going to… — Josh Duhamel Copy Share Image
Growing up as a classical musician, you're taught a lot about outreach and about how people aren't being taught music in school.… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially… — Rick Moranis Copy Share Image
We got to see Sondheim shows, 'Phantom of the Opera,' 'Cats' and all sorts of stuff. When you're 10 or 11 years… — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
I had an amazing French teacher in high school - it was the one class that I enjoyed. And I studied opera… — Madeline Brewer Copy Share Image
Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment,… — Jeffrey Tate Copy Share Image
Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays 'em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm still wondering about the Phantom in the chair, you know at the end of Phantom [of the Opera], so I guess… — Katherine Shindle Copy Share Image
In the eighth grade I found I had a voice for opera, so I followed that path a little, but my impulse… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
I get people saying, 'Opera is too large a canvas for me. I don't love it. I love movies that feel almost… — Jeff Perry Copy Share Image
To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm… — Cam Gigandet Copy Share Image
The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers.… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song,… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do… — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze - just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they're all 'Made… — Lapo Elkann Copy Share Image
My father, my uncles, my aunts, from my father's side and my mother's side... they were all professional musicians. My father was… — Lalo Schifrin Copy Share Image
My parents were opera singers. I didn't want to play opera because I wasn't good enough. I didn't want to play their… — Rick Nielsen Copy Share Image
My real passion is for opera. It was born and developed by listening to records, and my dream as a child was… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
My mum and dad were full-on proles, from the Rhondda Valley, who love opera. I've got quite a bit of opera, and… — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share Image
I seek out hard things. I tried to imitate other singers. It was a self-discovery for me to move from imitating others… — Daniela Vega Copy Share Image
And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
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