Opera Quotes

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It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing… — Johnny Mathis
Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money. — Wim Wenders
Among the numerous pleasures of Vienna the hotel evenings are famous. During supper Strauss or Lanner play waltzes...After every waltz they get huge applause; and… — Frederic Chopin
It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian,… — James A. Michener
My chance, when it came, was due, literally, to the fact that I was slender.... You cannot make an opera audience believe that a man… — Maria Jeritza
Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera. — Jacqueline Novogratz
. . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an [adaptation] of your book?… — Laurie Anderson
Working-girls, in pairs and groups and swarms, loitered by these windows, choosing their future boudoirs from some resplendent display which included even a man's silk… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with Soundgarden at Voodoo… — Chris Cornell
I'm not glamorous, I don't have a look, I don't know anything about opera, I have no Italian, and I'm too old. — Tyne Daly
The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account;… — Isaac Asimov
A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera. — Robertson Davies
Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song, I try to… — Andrea Bocelli
The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'. — Marianne Faithfull
I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined Id be in a soap opera. — Jencarlos Canela
The taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts such as opera. As a taxpayer, I am forced to admit that I would rather… — Dave Barry
Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted… — Ethel Smyth
An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an… — Joseph Addison
I used to pride myself on being impervious to the sentimentalities of soap opera, but when that loveliest of actresses, Rachel Gurney, of Upstairs, Downstairs,… — S. J. Perelman
I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that… — Edgar Allan Poe

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