Opera Quotes · Page 10

When I have some time, I listen to opera.

— Javier Milei

I find the opera part in 'The Greatest Show on Earth' challenging.

— Floor Jansen

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

— Edward Abbey

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

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

“You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him sing opera.”

— Richard Ford

Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.

— James Stephens

An exotic and irrational entertainment.

— Samuel Johnson

I sang opera for over four years when I was younger.

— Lele Pons

Are you implying that our relationship is like a Spanish soap opera?” “I’m not implying. I’m saying it.

— Ilona Andrews

WWE is a company that produces fiction. It's a soap opera that runs 52 weeks a year without reruns.

— Linda McMahon

As americans I think it's harder for us to have a relationship with opera because the access to it is so limited.

— Jacob Hashimoto

If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.

— Thomas Beecham

I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.

— Tod Machover

“Giovanni always had music running through his head. Moments he experienced in life recalled for him scenes from operas. [Giovanni Tempesta]”

— Vincent B. Chip LoCoco

In the early '80s when I came to London, I didn't like opera. I didn't know anything about it.

— Harry Enfield

It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera…

— Luciano Pavarotti

The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but…

— Isaac Asimov

Whether you're an opera singer, a legislator or customer service operator, there is a way that we can find common ground with…

— Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

One year, I was a patron of a new opera. It was, to put it kindly, unpleasant to the ear. The friends…

— Karen DeCrow

When I do get to chow down on a book, I try to read ones that are nothing like what I'm writing.…

— Charles Stross

Every year I go to Broadway to see a musical - I like the music. I saw 'Mamma Mia;' I saw 'Les…

— Rafael Nadal

Any time I've performed on one of the major stages, whether it be Covent Garden or the Paris Opera or the Bolshoi…

— Wendy Whelan

I'm involved with a baroque opera company here in Italy. I write some of their booklet material, comments on operas. I also…

— Donna Leon

There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes…

— Rudolf Bing

We all know that men in moderate circumstances can have just as comfortable houses as the richest, just as comfortable clothing, just…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The operas that I do are more in the operetta world, but I've gotten to do them in all of these major…

— Jason Graae

I've ended up as a filmmaker who really loves the movie part of movies. That time in my life was a big…

— Zack Snyder

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

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

Opera Australia has a mix - it produces new work, it produces from the classical repertoire and, particularly in more recent years,…

— George Brandis

In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing…

— Andrea Bocelli

I was keenly aware that I didn't want to draw on too many typically doomed aspects of the fated singer. Whether it's…

— Rufus Wainwright

What's an opera if everyone is dead in it?

— Hugh Griffith

I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.

— Benjamin Britten

I decided I was going to be an opera star. I was about 12.

— Megan Hilty

Some may say that I couldn't sing, but no one can say that I didn't sing.

— Florence Foster Jenkins

I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera.

— Dave Barry

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.

— Stephen Hawking

Music and opera are a big part of my life.

— Ailyn Perez

For more than 13,000 days on the run, my life was a soap opera.

— Ronald Biggs