I don't have a rock voice. I have to force it. I am like an opera singer. — Meat Loaf Copy Share Image
Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me. — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me. — Zola Jesus Copy Share Image
In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
'Next To Normal' is rock music. It's a rock opera. That, definitely, has a place in popular music. — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being… — Lesley Manville Copy Share Image
I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I vowed I would never do a commercial, or a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I… — Kevin Kline Copy Share Image
When I wrote Rick, I had the idea that I would take the plot of nearly every opera and turn it into… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked… — Leslie Easterbrook Copy Share Image
Cathedrals are built with pennies of the faithful. A great opera house also is a spiritual center, a temple of sorts, where… — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Sometimes, going to see one opera is hard because you don't know the genre. Good opera is like good wine. There are… — Susanna Phillips Copy Share Image
Britten's opera tends to see things in simpler terms. It portrays an Aschenbach who wants a richer form of sexual fulfillment, and… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
Dedication: My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine. I can best repay their… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate… — Bruce Beresford Copy Share Image
Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a… — David Hume Copy Share Image
You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training. There's no such thing as an overnight opera… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Among the numerous pleasures of Vienna the hotel evenings are famous. During supper Strauss or Lanner play waltzes...After every waltz they get… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts,… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
Goodness gracious me,” exclaimed Alexia, “what are you wearing? It looks like the unfortunate progeny of an illicit union between a pair… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Yeah, unfortunately [ films like Miss Julie are a dying breed]. And that is sad, because we need these. Like we need… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
I'm a classically trained opera singer. I thought that was my journey. — Da'Vine Joy Randolph Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image