The difference between me and, say, the opera critic is that I'm charged with thinking about the world beyond opera. I could… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
We would never get away from it. ... It's bad enough as it is, but with the wireless telephone one could be… — Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin Copy Share Image
My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma was an… — Skylar Grey Copy Share Image
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A whole new world of Italian music was springing up, and [Giuseppe] Verdi was seen as old. Boito got Verdi all excited… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
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Baseball is a soap opera that plays out day after day, one that a lot of elderly women watch until the characters… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns,… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I always believed 'The Fly' to be a classic opera story. It's a tale of love and death, true love surviving in… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
I have no desire to become a crossover artiste, singing with microphones. I believe in opera; that it is something that young… — Anna Netrebko Copy Share Image
I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
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The roughest make-up I ever wore was for 'Phantom of the Opera' because the phantom's face was all disfigured, and he's trying… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
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You could live without the opera singer, but not without the services of the baker. On this ground you might say that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around in my head, to the extent… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist… — Randy Bachman Copy Share Image
I had a schoolmaster who was a supernumerary at Glyndebourne Opera, and through ,I got a job as a walk-on in Peter… — Richard McCabe Copy Share Image
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I started performing with the Boston Children's Opera when I was 5, and I stayed working with that group until I was… — Barrett Wilbert Weed Copy Share Image
Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
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