To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities… — Junichiro Koizumi Copy Share Image
My family were symphonic musicians and in the opera. Also, it was my era, the love of radio. We used to listen… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
I heard a lot of different kinds of music. I heard country music, I heard jazz, I heard symphonic music, opera, everything… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I was attracted to opera when I was 15 or 16. A very rich man in England bankrupted himself to put on… — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
They crested a rise, and there it was, in the hollow between rolling hills—a low, square building, ghostly gray in the moonlight.… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
The most important part of a city is its people. In fact, people for me are like little cities. When you meet… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of… — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
“You're just being cryptic again. It's like soap opera sex. Lots of boring dialogue and when they finally do go to bed,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochoda’s voice recalls Richard Price,… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
There's no better training than working on a soap opera because of the amount of hours, the amount of pages you do… — Daniela Ruah Copy Share Image
Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I remember once saying in a television interview that the only things I hadn't been in were the opera and the ballet.… — Donald Sinden Copy Share Image
I've just written a very gritty, non-magical take on the King Arthur legend, 'Here Lies Arthur,' and I'm currently toying with some… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
If you want to do other things, you have to leave soap operas, otherwise you'll be there forever, which is not bad,… — Jackee Harry Copy Share Image
All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way… — Eva LaRue Copy Share Image
The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I had a lot of classical influences. I had classical music and opera and literature, but I also liked sleaze. And putting… — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap… — Timothy Dalton Copy Share Image
Theatre can transform a child's life, just as an early cultural experience whether with opera, ballet, music or art is a wonderful… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day. My face… — Nina Arianda Copy Share Image
I sing what I sing. And that's recitals and orchestra concerts. To appease - no, that's not the right word - let's… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
My chance, when it came, was due, literally, to the fact that I was slender… You cannot make an opera audience believe… — Maria Jeritza Copy Share Image
I do not understand where the idea came from that opera is only for privileged people, I am as happy singing before… — Katherine Jenkins 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
“Poetry, Shakespeare and opera, are like mumps and should be caught when young. In the unhappy event that there is a postponement… — Dimitris Mita Copy Share Image
We tend to forget that in those days before the Internet and HBO and Imax and 3-D cinema, opera was the thing.… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
As a piano player, if 10 is concert level, I'd put myself at a 5 or a 6, but in a completely… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
I was very young, and I was on vacation with my family, and there was a retrospective of old films, and one… — Dario Argento Copy Share Image
I'm very musically inclined. My parents were opera singers. As a young child, I could hear operas and I knew if they… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to… — John Eaton Copy Share Image
Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera'… — Peter Mullan Copy Share Image
I just figured, 'I don't want to go to university anymore,' so I went to Stockholm. I went into this teaching school… — Sofia Helin Copy Share Image
Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow… — Joe Lando Copy Share Image
Working on a soap opera is such good training for the novice actor. No rehearsal, 120 pages of dialogue per week, and… — Dylan Bruce Copy Share Image
Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
