Madeline Kahn is one of my favourite people in the entire world and one of the funniest. She was a talented Broadway… — John Grant Copy Share Image
Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to 'get' any music, no matter how distant the culture… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined I'd be in a soap opera. — Jencarlos Canela Copy Share Image
One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time. — Gioachino Rossini Copy Share Image
For better or worse, I've always been curious musically. Whether it's opera or Judy Garland or pop, I've deliberately sought those things… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I studied opera, and when I left conservatory I told myself I would never sing in public again. — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
We've always told stories through music and rhythm and movement, and what we know as western opera has only been around for… — Jake Heggie Copy Share Image
Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions. — Sarah Caldwell Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I dreamed of being an opera singer like Maria Callas or a jazz singer like June Christy… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I'm a lover of all sorts of music, which makes me a chameleon when it comes to performing anything, whether it's opera… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays 'em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
My mother sang jazz and opera - she even performed at the Apollo on Amateur Night. — Rakim Copy Share Image
If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
When you work on a soap opera, that's three years of you working every day. There was no time to do anything… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance. — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose… — Paul Bailey Copy Share Image
