Opera Quotes · Page 9

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.

— Gioachino Rossini

I did 'Doubt' as a film, a play and an opera.

— John Patrick Shanley

When an opera star sings her head off? she usually improves her appearance.

— Victor Borge

The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera.

— Josh Lanyon

Actually I do not listen to much opera music.

— Tarja Turunen

Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.

— Christian Lacroix

It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera.

— Doug Davidson

When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre.

— The Weeknd

Reality TV has totally destroyed soap operas. They're gone. They used to be the biggest thing in the world - they're gone.

— Gilbert Gottfried

My sister is an opera singer. I grew up going to her recitals. This whole time, I'm like, 'She's the singer. I'm…

— Benjamin Booker

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

— Anthony Davis

Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.

— Beverly Sills

Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap…

— Lindsey Buckingham

I was brought up on listening to 78 rpm records from crooners to opera singers to solo piano players.

— Denny Laine

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

— William Mapother

Strictly cop and go's until we laid in the Galapagos Eating tacos, higher than an opera note

— Action Bronson

It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at…

— Johnny Mathis

Rock pools, so-named because they have been hammered out of rocks at the ocean's edge, are one of Sydney's defining characteristics, along…

— Raymond Bonner

My grandmother was this unbelievably smart, phenomenally cool woman and [soap operas] were just always on in her house. I just realized…

— Ian Somerhalder

I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's…

— Cecilia Bartoli

I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is.…

— Cab Calloway

My mom says that she caught me one day in front of the TV watching opera. I was trying to sing back…

— Jessie Reyez

Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the…

— Teddy Sears

If TV seems improved, I think it's been enhanced by violence and sex permissible on cable, as well as better cinematography, but…

— William Monahan

Politically it's easy to salve one's conscience, no matter that salving it rarely makes the problem go away. You join the Labour…

— Howard Jacobson

My parents used to park us kids at the public library in downtown Honolulu every Saturday. They'd leave us there at 8…

— Bette Midler

An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words…

— James Fenton

I never had a burning desire to have children. But then I met Nick, and I thought, 'This is the only person…

— Megan Mullally

Liverpool's grand opera also gave us some light comedy - on hearing the news that the house of goalkeeper Pepe Reina was…

— Declan Lynch

The pop world is popular, and it's about what the people want and connecting to the masses, whereas opera, although it was…

— Rufus Wainwright

I went to film school when I was 17, and of course when you are very young you think that there is…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a…

— David Hume

Dictatorship is always merely an aria, never an opera.

— Emil Ludwig

I had a year at 3 when I wanted to be a conductor in the opera.

— Nina Arianda

I think the opera is one of the great cultural jewels of Los Angeles.

— Eli Broad

I like to spend several months at least in a particular opera house.

— Mirella Freni

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

— Tony Curtis

Dance stories, unlike those in opera, are usually simple.

— Robert Gottlieb

I'd been trained in choral, gospel, and a little bit of opera.

— Lizz Wright

“The dictatorship is like an aria that never becomes an opera.”

— Emilia Pardo Bazán