Opera Quotes

551 quotes by 410 authors

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. — H. L. Mencken
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral. — H. L. Mencken
We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear . — Freddie Mercury
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive. — Moliere
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. — Hannah More
One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It… — Nana Mouskouri
Most visions of extraterrestrial life are actually steeped in human hubris. The fictional extraterrestrials of 'Star Trek' or a hundred other space operas are less… — Nathan Myhrvold
Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I… — Jo Nesbo
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot… — David Ogilvy
Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them. — Camille Paglia
Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been… — Camille Paglia
Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong. — Terry Pratchett
I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels. — Lou Reed
One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time. — Gioachino Rossini
I became a set designer for opera. — Maurice Sendak
I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out. — Maurice Sendak
And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once,… — Wallace Shawn
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at… — Wole Soyinka
When something like that happens, people want to try to find some dirt and make it more of a soap opera. But I think we… — Scott Stapp
After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made… — Sam Taylor-Wood

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