If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
College football, acting, opera singing - I approached them all in the same obsessive way. — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
I'm from a small Irish family of 10, so there always was music in the house. Growing up, my older sisters had… — Colm Wilkinson Copy Share Image
The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire. — Bruce Beresford Copy Share Image
“Ahahahahaha! Ahahahaha! Aahahaha! BEWARE!!!!! Yrs Sincerely, The Opera Ghost” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual… — Jerome Lawrence Copy Share Image
Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It would be nice to wake up and be able to walk to the bathroom. But even when I was 20 and… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true… — Zola Jesus Copy Share Image
Critics complained it wasn't opera, it wasn't a musical. You give someone something delicious to eat and they complain because they have… — Rouben Mamoulian Copy Share Image
Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
If I can't do an opera as well as most people, I won't do it at all. I don't want to touch… — Richard Bonynge Copy Share Image
Opera once was an important social instrument - especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi, people were listening to opera together and… — Luciano Berio Copy Share Image
On a soap opera, you'll do an episode and a half a day, and in prime time television, you're hustling to get… — Justin Hartley Copy Share Image
When you sing opera you are very far from the people, you are onstage, and between you and the people there is… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
“I ended my statement to the colored soldiers by saying: "Now, I shall be very sorry to hurt you, and you don't… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
But the stuff that I do is more like all the comic roles like in The Merry Widow and Die Fledermaus and… — Jason Graae Copy Share Image
Life beats down and crushes our souls and theatre reminds us that we have one. At least the type of theatre that… — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
Yeah, unfortunately [ films like Miss Julie are a dying breed]. And that is sad, because we need these. Like we need… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
Among the numerous pleasures of Vienna the hotel evenings are famous. During supper Strauss or Lanner play waltzes...After every waltz they get… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Some may say that I couldn't sing, but no one can say that I didn't sing. — Florence Foster Jenkins Copy Share Image
Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers. — John Eaton Copy Share Image
A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator. — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
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