Advice Quote by Alan Bradley

“Pretend you're not alone, Like you are center stage on Broadway. 'Cause when you're on your own a little opera goes a long way.”

— Sky Sailing Adam Young

“At the opera, the music makes no sense; here in the street it has just the right demented touch to give it poignancy.”

— Henry Miller

“Opera has the power to warn you that you have wasted your life. You haven't acted on your desires. You've suffered a stunted, vicarious…

— Wayne Koestenbaum

“Exposing impressionable young men to the glories of opera on their first evening at home with you tended to put the kiss of death…

— Anthony McDonald

“You can either be on the stage, just a performer, just going through the lines... or you can be outside it, and know how…

— Terry Pratchett

“No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”

— W. H. Auden

“Ahahahahaha! Ahahahaha! Aahahaha! BEWARE!!!!! Yrs Sincerely, The Opera Ghost”

— Terry Pratchett

Life is not an opera. Scenes belong on the stage.

— Loretta Chase

“The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomimes.”

— Iris Murdoch

“You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Someone put opera on inside the house. Someone changed it to hip-hop, thank God. Someone started a shower. Someone vacuumed. Again. Life. In all…

— J.R. Ward

“I like your opera - I think I will set it to music”

— Ludwig van Beethoven