“Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian.” — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
I'd love to do 'Werther.' It's a great opera, and the music's so beautiful. — Stephen Costello Copy Share Image
The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'. — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
Actually, my first professional job was singing opera with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. — Brett Cooper Copy Share Image
I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I listened to the opera the other day, and it gave me a surprising insight into the reason why someone would invent… — Cellan Slarcas Copy Share Image
When you hear complaints about pro wrestling, it's that there is too much soap opera, too much storyline. — Christopher Daniels Copy Share Image
Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be… — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
I would rather stare at the wall for half an hour than watch an episode of any of the 53,801 Australian soap… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The only thing I daydreamed about was being an opera singer. But I was so skinny and so pathetic that that sort… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot… — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called… — Jeremy Bulloch Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the comic strip medium stands equally beside all the other story telling mediums: novels, movies, stage plays, opera,… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
'iCarly' gives me the luxury of addressing the fans directly. It was a sort of loving nudge to the fans saying, 'We're… — Dan Schneider Copy Share Image
I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
What is the source of power of musicians who are financially browbeaten, most of whom work for minimum wage or less? Musicians… — Itay Talgam Copy Share Image
As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly… — Sarah Caldwell Copy Share Image
Fitzcarraldo is a mad dreamer. He's willing to sacrifice everything in order to make his vision of an opera house. That metaphor… — Sam Pressman Copy Share Image
Liverpool's grand opera also gave us some light comedy - on hearing the news that the house of goalkeeper Pepe Reina was… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
My parents used to park us kids at the public library in downtown Honolulu every Saturday. They'd leave us there at 8… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
I think I will always feel a special relationship with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, because for me it was something very, very… — Catherine Deneuve Copy Share Image
Early on, America took one path and went down the advertising road, and in the UK they founded the BBC and developed… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
It takes about a year to write an opera for me, but not a really a year of writing. I'm touring at… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'some one,' like everybody else. But… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
I went to film school when I was 17, and of course when you are very young you think that there is… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
The problems I had with the Paris Opera Ballet are a thing of the past. — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great opera. — David Rubenstein Copy Share Image
![“It takes about a year to write an opera for me, but not a really a year of writing. I'm touring at the same time, and I'm playing, sometimes doing smaller projects.[The opera] Akhnaten fits in with Gandhi and Einstein, so that forms a trilogy in a way.I picked people who were these kind of larger…” quote by Philip Glass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20d/philip-glass-14533_admirable_it-takes-about-a-year-to-write-an-opera_444252.jpg)
