I heard a lot of different kinds of music. I heard country music, I heard jazz, I heard symphonic music, opera, everything… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities… — Junichiro Koizumi Copy Share Image
My interest in women's voices started when I was in the boys' choir and we were singing in opera choruses. That was… — Alexander Chee 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
Opera stars know that biology is destiny. Sometime in their 50s or early 60s, the powerful, flexible and ultimately mysterious instrument that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are… — Bryn Terfel Copy Share Image
When I was very little, I was sort of consumed by a love for opera. Weirdly enough, I went from being really… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
Every job you have, there are days that are more difficult than others. I worked on a daytime soap opera, where the… — Justin Hartley Copy Share Image
If you want to do other things, you have to leave soap operas, otherwise you'll be there forever, which is not bad,… — Jackee Harry Copy Share Image
All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way… — Eva LaRue Copy Share Image
Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochoda’s voice recalls Richard Price,… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“You're just being cryptic again. It's like soap opera sex. Lots of boring dialogue and when they finally do go to bed,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of… — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
There's no better training than working on a soap opera because of the amount of hours, the amount of pages you do… — Daniela Ruah Copy Share Image
Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I've just written a very gritty, non-magical take on the King Arthur legend, 'Here Lies Arthur,' and I'm currently toying with some… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
I remember once saying in a television interview that the only things I hadn't been in were the opera and the ballet.… — Donald Sinden Copy Share Image
They crested a rise, and there it was, in the hollow between rolling hills—a low, square building, ghostly gray in the moonlight.… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
The most important part of a city is its people. In fact, people for me are like little cities. When you meet… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best,… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
I never breathe through the nose, not when I'm singing. In the opera, you don't have so much time. That's fine at… — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. People want to know… — Dan Stevens Copy Share Image
The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or… — Laurence Equilbey Copy Share Image
The operas I listen to aren't in English, and I want to listen to my opera after I'm done with it. I… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I really thought I wanted to be a musical-comedy star, but I lived in Phoenix and didn't want to go all the… — Sandra Bernhard Copy Share Image
One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never… — Nana Mouskouri Copy Share Image
I didn't know I was going to go into musical theater necessarily. It was never planned. I just kind of fell into… — Carmen Cusack Copy Share Image
I know the world of opera so intimately: historical sweep, sharply defined characters, not too rational an explanation of what's going on.… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Carmen is an iconic character. I think everyone in the world knows of the existence of the story and the opera, even… — Melissa Barrera Copy Share Image
I leaned across the table towards the crumb-thrower. "Do that again," I said, loud enough to be heard over the opera singer,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Every movie has the thing it's about, and then, deep down, it has this thing that it's really about. 'Star Wars' is… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
My works are a direct response to the typical space opera. I grew tired of always reading about how the people with… — Nathan Lowell Copy Share Image
If you look at Marriage of Figaro or Butterfly or Traviata, all of those elements are in there. I also have to… — Jake Heggie Copy Share Image
I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Eating, loving, singing, and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Growing up, for years and years I had no idea what the plots of operas were, and that's part of what fascinated… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
European operetta and German singspiel provided the American musical its combination of spoken dialogue and song; the inclusion of dance traced a… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
When I was general director of City Opera, we were pioneers in the practice of projecting supertitles so that American audiences finally… — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to… — Kevin Kline Copy Share Image
![“I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera - - both of which I did as soon as I left the [Acting] Company and was starving.” quote by Kevin Kline](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/236/kevin-kline-16716_acting_i-think-every-american-actor-wants-to-be_1805603.jpg)
