When the music and the characters are flawlessly…

My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times.

— Augusten Burroughs

Music is a very spiritual and emotional force.

— Susan Tedeschi

I'm really into, like, characters - music characters like Sid Vicious and Kurt Cobain - just, like, how they are and stuff. Like Lil…

— Yung Lean

I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing. I hear…

— Idina Menzel

I like films that rest in the memory, so I try and choose parts which have some kind of social or emotional force.

— Isabelle Adjani

Music is always a part of my characters' make-up.

— Michael K. Williams

Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.

— Bruce Beresford

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than…

— Bruce Beresford

In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much…

— Bruce Beresford

I never wanted to be an opera singer. I wanted to be an actress, maybe a rock singer.

— Kristine Opolais

If you put together all the ingredients that naturally attract children - sex, violence, revenge, spectacle and vigorous noise - what you have is…

— Judith Martin

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing…

— Wole Soyinka

All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way to start…

— Eva LaRue

It takes a little more time to get into the role, but not very much more. In making a record you don't have the…

— Maria Callas

I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.

— Wang Leehom