Funny Quote by Benjamin Britten

I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.

— Tod Machover

Opera is music AND drama. I'm prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time... I can make a pretty tone…

— Beverly Sills

In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera,…

— Stewart Copeland

Actually I do not listen to much opera music.

— Tarja Turunen

I think opera music is very conservative, and Rock and Roll music is conservative as well, and that's why I'm trying to make a…

— Klaus Nomi

I'd love to do 'Werther.' It's a great opera, and the music's so beautiful.

— Stephen Costello

There's a kind of a line between music and math, so I guess I got the music gene, thank goodness. But my mother wasn't…

— Olivia Newton-John

I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep.”

— Deyth Banger

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

— H. L. Mencken

“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

I'm actually doing what I like doing, which is mixing opera music and classical music with soul and folk. And I was writing and…

— Benjamin Clementine