Opera Quotes

551 quotes by 411 authors

Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't influenced… — Dave Brubeck
The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one. — Jean de la Bruyere
Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera. — Lindsey Buckingham
My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers. — Sandra Bullock
It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it… — David Byrne
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my… — Maria Callas
My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was… — Jennifer Aniston
We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments - a soap… — Paul Fleischman
Soap opera rappers, all these niggas sound like 'All My Children'. — Drake
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap… — Arthur Rimbaud
When an opera star sings her head off? she usually improves her appearance. — Victor Borge
You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation. — Irvin S. Cobb
I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera. — Luciano Pavarotti
The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to the… — Robert Anton Wilson
Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or… — C. Wright Mills
Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms. — Colin McGinn
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand. — Edward Victor Appleton
How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers. — Gioachino Rossini
Life beats down and crushes our souls and theatre reminds us that we have one. At least the type of theatre that I'm interested in;… — Sanford Meisner

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