When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer... The people I loved were a little… — FKA twigs Copy Share Image
Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music. — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - its… — Eve Best Copy Share Image
Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters… — Tika Sumpter Copy Share Image
Both my mother and my grandmother aspired to be opera singers. And they studied it. — Jihae Copy Share Image
My parents were both opera singers, and they also were both heavily into religious and church music. — Rick Nielsen Copy Share Image
There were a few things that went into it. When you're doing something you're trying to be your audience at the same… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
My wife was an opera singer, you know. She bellowed her way through Wagner as a Valkyrie. I married her and made… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“That´s the problem with planning a late night supper after the opera, not only does the hero or the heroine die singing,… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the… — Leontyne Price Copy Share Image
When you decide to become an opera singer, it's a commitment that allows nothing else to interfere. Even your family - and… — Lucy Lawless Copy Share Image
I looked at the job of piano accompanist. It's a selfless position and generally they are odd people, according to opera singers… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
I'm completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as somebody said,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I remember someone once saying, "Pete, you know you really should take voice lessons." And I said, "Well, if I could find… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Tom [Courtenay] and Albert Finney met Ron Harwood on the dresser, so that's how it started. It's a wonderful documentary. It's called… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
I just adored Peter Medak, the director. He's such a character, but he was so much fun. Some directors come in and… — Brigid Brannagh Copy Share Image
I'm the only person in my family who can't sing. My grandmother was an opera singer and all of her kids were… — Le1f Copy Share Image
But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
There is a lot of propaganda about opera singers not being able to act. That's not necessarily true and hasn't been true… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
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I walked out of the theater and started crying. My wife asked me, 'Why are you crying?' I said, 'Because I can't… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
I was going to be a singer. If I hadn't been in my profession, I was going to be an Opera singer.… — Jack LaLanne 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
I really thought I wanted to be a musical-comedy star, but I lived in Phoenix and didn't want to go all the… — Sandra Bernhard Copy Share Image
I studied with Stella Adler and I didn't like the representational aspect of most opera singers. Most of the opera singers had… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
There's a kind of a line between music and math, so I guess I got the music gene, thank goodness. But my… — Olivia Newton-John 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
I don't have a rock voice. I have to force it. I am like an opera singer. — Meat Loaf Copy Share Image
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I have so much respect for the big opera singers that I never dare to say I'm a singer. — Barbara Sukowa Copy Share Image
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I was raised on piano and saxophone and jazz music for ten or twelve years. Before I even picked up a bass.… — Matt Snell Copy Share Image
My mum's an opera singer: I grew up watching her get swept up in music and transform herself into characters. She taught… — Katie Noonan Copy Share Image
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