Opera Quotes · Page 6

For years, I wasn't in the least bit interested in opera.

— Simon McBurney

“Opera's not for everyone, especially at these prices.”

— Joseph McElroy

For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.

— Johannes Brahms

The opera in Los Angeles is excellent.

— James Gray

I got to talk about global warming on the No. 1 soap opera in the country.

— Laurie David

Soap operas got nothing on my family history.

— Kiersten White

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

— Moliere

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

— Dario Argento

I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed…

— Fanny Burney

'The Stars are Legion' is part space opera, part thriller, about two warring families battling it out for control over a legion…

— Kameron Hurley

“I like Italian High Opera, German Comic Opera and the Grand Ole’ Opry – in no particular order.”

— C.L. Gammon

(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend…

— Victor Borge

I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.

— Franco Zeffirelli

If you decide to work with the opera world, chances are there are going to be people who resist that.

— Robert Lepage

I quit my job in the bank when I was 19. I took a chance. I went to Milan to study opera…

— Marcello Giordani

After 'Spelling Bee,' I started landing more jobs... I got 'Candide' at New York City Opera.

— Lauren Worsham

I didn't really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera career was cut short when I…

— Meryl Streep

“That´s the problem with planning a late night supper after the opera, not only does the hero or the heroine die singing,…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments…

— Paul Fleischman

Our life is not given to us like an opera libretto, in which all is written down; but it means going, walking,…

— Pope Francis

Is as if the music is another character or as if it was a part of this great opera. I also through…

— Alex Abreu

I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens,…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Many years ago I was in another soap opera called The Newcomers which was on twice a week for three years. I…

— Jeremy Bulloch

If you are going to take me a to a musical, you'd better give me three songs that I'm gonna like. Nobody…

— Dennis DeYoung

Robert Duvall taught me years ago. He said, "You know theatre is not real. I don't like plays." You know, he doesn't…

— Billy Bob Thornton

My Heart I'm not going to cry all the time nor shall I laugh all the time, I don't prefer one "strain"…

— Frank O'Hara

Working-girls, in pairs and groups and swarms, loitered by these windows, choosing their future boudoirs from some resplendent display which included even…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The most intelligent inspection of any number of fine paintings will not make the observer a painter, nor will listening to a…

— Emanuel Lasker

The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

When I was younger, I felt it essential to see every movie ever made. Now I feel as though I've got to…

— James Gray

“For all his claims to be just a propagandist, [Bernard Shaw's] writing has an effect nearer to that of music than most…

— W.H. Auden

In order to get the things I want, it helps me to pretend I’m a figure in a daytime drama, a schemer.…

— David Sedaris

An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.

— Gustav Mahler

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.

— Judy Garland

To be a famously successful opera singer. I wanted that since I was eight.

— Danielle de Niese

You can't get down and dirty at the opera.

— Michael Ball

“It takes uberrima fides to have opera omnia.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight.

— Groucho Marx

“Why was there never an opera that ended with a soprano who was free?”

— Alexander Chee

“I like opera just fine; it’s people I wanted to get away from.” As”

— Anne McCaffrey