Opera Quotes · Page 12

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

Before, there were only four pay per views throughout the whole year. Guys who were doing soap opera storylines could build them…

— Ricky Steamboat

We had that horrible experience with 'Behind the Music' where they just made it all salacious. That's not about the band -…

— Charlotte Caffey

Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.

— Edward Abbey

The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.

— John Marshall

I like Strauss's operas because it's all women's voices; I like opera that's hysterical.

— Ron Mael

'The Phantom of the Opera' is about love. It's as simple as that.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

I want to get out of the major opera houses.

— Renee Fleming

I was very young, maybe five. The opera was very... I was attracted to opera to the point that I think it's…

— Lalo Schifrin

One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief.

— Simon Rattle

Games get a bad press compared with, say, opera - even though they're obviously better, because no opera has ever compelled an…

— Charlie Brooker

I don't suppose I can wear the flamingo tie," he said as he pulled on black socks. "It's a bit festive, given…

— John Green

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

— John Philip Sousa

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion…

— Israel Zangwill

If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.

— Carlisle Floyd

It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth…

— James A. Michener

Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal,…

— Marcus du Sautoy

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

— Sandra Bullock

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

— Renee Fleming

Some of the opera houses in Italy had to be burnt down because people could neither see nor hear. They gave up…

— Philip Johnson

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

— Pope Francis

Bartolo used to do his cardio work during the game. They had the Stairmaster and there were two TVs. One with the…

— Alex Cora

We've seen a million versions of the Peter Parker radioactive-spider origin story. We've seen Thomas and Martha Wayne at the opera... over…

— Simu Liu

I had the working class ethic. I wanted to make a living and there weren't many opportunities for an opera singer in…

— Jane McDonald

The opera ghost really existed

— Gaston Leroux