I guess I am running the risk of becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of opera. — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
I can't sing a lick but that's nobody's business. God listens when I sing to Him and He thinks I am an… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it. — John Eaton Copy Share Image
A resolution to attend theatres or operas is an absolute disqualification for Holy Orders. — Samuel Wilberforce Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam… — Steven-Elliot Altman Copy Share Image
This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it. — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
I have stared long enough at the glowing flat rectangles of computer screens. Let us give more time for doing things in… — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
I did radio, I did television, I did opera, I did films in which I had very, very little to say. But… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
“In the enormous whale-belly of steel and stone carved out to form the long-enduring old opera house, Rick Deckard found an echoing,… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look… — Isaac Mizrahi Copy Share Image
I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What sort of person," said Salzella patiently, "sits down and writes a maniacal laugh? And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five?… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think opera music is very conservative, and Rock and Roll music is conservative as well, and that's why I'm trying to… — Klaus Nomi Copy Share Image
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination,… — Maria Callas Copy Share Image
I guess I've done a lot of different kinds of performing at various times - opera singing, poetry reading, not least high… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
The shower is my time to open up my operatic chops, because of the enormous echo. You sound five times as big… — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
Many Americans have lost confidence in the way our criminal courts assess guilt and innocence. Whatever one thinks of the verdicts, the… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
When you're a kid, regardless of the age you grew up, everything is high opera. With hormones raging, you have to fight… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
“Opera has the power to warn you that you have wasted your life. You haven't acted on your desires. You've suffered a… — Wayne Koestenbaum Copy Share Image
Duke Ellington's career traces the entire history of jazz. The repertoire associated with him contains the most important elements in the music… — Billy Taylor Copy Share Image
Opera was an enormous part of my childhood. My parents were both opera buffs, and they met in the box seat of… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
It takes a little more time to get into the role, but not very much more. In making a record you don't… — Maria Callas Copy Share Image
They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera. — Michael Zaslow Copy Share Image
People who know me as a hard-core rocker who positively despises musicals might be surprised to find that I am a huge… — Jackie Fuchs Copy Share Image
Professionally, I did a couple of operas when I was in school, when I was 18. — Lucy Griffiths Copy Share Image
In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual… — Jerome Lawrence Copy Share Image
At 7, I was at the barre and dancing at folk festivals. Then I was a student with the ballet school of… — Maria Karnilova Copy Share Image
“Firmin, might I remind you that we are the Paris Opera House. Drama is our bread and butter!” — Paisley Swan Stewart Copy Share Image
OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins. — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning. — William Mapother Copy Share Image
Strictly cop and go's until we laid in the Galapagos Eating tacos, higher than an opera note — Action Bronson Copy Share Image
Opera is a very stimulating place to work, and I believe it offers the most intense theatrical experience possible. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I was nostalgic even as a young man. Preferred listening to Opera not Bing Crossby. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
“No, no, you have driven me mad! When I think that I had only one object in life: to give my name… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice. — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
I was brought up on listening to 78 rpm records from crooners to opera singers to solo piano players. — Denny Laine Copy Share Image
