My father was an opera singer who constantly tried to persuade me not to enter into an artistic career. — Jose Jose Copy Share Image
If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama. — Jaime Winstone Copy Share Image
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances. — Anthony Geary Copy Share Image
I hear what people have said about what they want to see the Opera House used for and what they don't want… — Gladys Berejiklian Copy Share Image
I never dreamed of writing for concert or opera. I always dreamed, if I was a composer, to write music for films. — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
“You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the… — Lesley Garrett Copy Share Image
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
I didn't grow up imagining myself as an opera composer. Only once in my entire adolescence did I attend an opera. I… — John Adams 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
It was my contention that opera can not only pay for itself if it is well given, but it can also command… — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
We are riveted by the soap operas of public lives. We admire the famous most for what makes them infamous: it reassures… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily make much art myself, but after I wrote 'Warped Passages,' I was fortunate to get involved a little in… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
I feel opera is an expression of artistic excellence. To do it is expensive, as there's a requirement for an orchestra, good… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
I was raised with opera and very white-bread folk music like The Kingston Trio. That was about as daring as it got.… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always… — Robert Wilson 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
Anyone who wants to promote a car or a football tournament turns to opera. There's a much greater public connection than the… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra… — Isaac Babel 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
When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I'm very happy.… — Andrea Bocelli 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
I studied opera for a year at Georgia State University, but I wasn't interested in that meticulous, technical approach to music. So… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
Opera is music AND drama. I'm prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time... I can make a… — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement. To spend a Saturday afternoon mopping your kitchen floor while… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
My sister and I used to act as maids and waitresses at my great aunt and uncle's cocktail parties, which were very… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
Opera is something you have to educate yourself about. You have to make sure you understand the stories, what was happening politically,… — Jacob Hashimoto Copy Share Image
I could hire every producer in Hollywood - 2,000 producers, let's say - and they couldn't come up with all the soap… — Jerry Jones Copy Share Image
I was playing this role on 'Ugly Betty,' the sweetest, nicest guy. He was a fun character to play, but I was… — Ralph Macchio Copy Share Image
I'd go over to my grandmother's house, and she'd be playing opera. They loved opera. Not only did they play it on… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
Truths that startled the generation in which they were first announced become in the next age the commonplaces of conversation; as the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I've played football with George Best, the greatest footballer that ever lived. That doesn't make me a footballer. And I've sung a… — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
For me, the most enjoyable type of singing is opera. It allows you to move, to wear a costume... to do something… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
If I can't do an opera as well as most people, I won't do it at all. I don't want to touch… — Richard Bonynge Copy Share Image
My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom… — Sam Taylor-Johnson Copy Share Image
