Poetry quotes Quote by BJ Ward

“I will participate in the game. It is a wonderful, wonderful opera – except that it hurts.”

— Joseph Campbell

“...who is the hunchback in my comic opera, but me? I'm crippled on the inside and unable to make the gestures of love...”

— John Geddes

“She's sweet on Wagner. I think she'd die for Beethoven. she loves the way Puccini lays down a tune, and Verdi's always creeping from…

— Electric Light Orchestra

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

— Terry Pratchett

“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

“As I lie on my couch by the fireplace, looking out from my hillside home at the snow leading down to the ocean, with…

— Harry Browne

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

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“Whatever it is, it can’t possibly be as important as the Italian Concerto. Now let’s get to work.” We work for three and a…

— Hilary T. Smith

“What sort of person," said Salzella patiently, "sits down and writes a maniacal laugh? And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure…

— Terry Pratchett

“And now out onto Airport Road and into the city’s horn-honk opera.”

— Katherine Boo

“No, no, you have driven me mad! When I think that I had only one object in life: to give my name to an…

— Gaston Leroux

“She holds up her cup of wine and starts singing a bunch of words not in English. It sounds like a foreign national anthem,…

— Katherine Stevens