Opera Quotes
551 quotes by 410 authors
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Bidding the wizard farewell, he turned to his daughter, who held up her finger and said, “Daddy, look — one of the gnomes actually bit…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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If I were an opera singer, I"d have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your portrait. But cooking…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Soap operas got nothing on my family history.
— Kiersten White
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We seem so frightened today of being alone that we never let it happen. Even if family, friends, and movies should fail, there is still…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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You could live without the opera singer, but not without the services of the baker. On this ground you might say that the baker performs…
— Bertrand Russell
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Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to…
— Lincoln Kirstein
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Writing an opera and premiering in England, you could say I was going right into the eye of the storm and I came out successfully.…
— Rufus Wainwright
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To be a famously successful opera singer. I wanted that since I was eight.
— Danielle de Niese
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Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal, especially when Dennis…
— Marcus du Sautoy
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Working on a soap opera is such good training for the novice actor. No rehearsal, 120 pages of dialogue per week, and one take to…
— Dylan Bruce
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My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters how to sing.
— Tika Sumpter
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Opera is an exclusive art form, so it cannot be that popular. I just do what I love to do.
— Anna Netrebko
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I have no desire to become a crossover artiste, singing with microphones. I believe in opera; that it is something that young people would love…
— Anna Netrebko
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Lots of opera singers are just boring.
— Anna Netrebko
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The jewellery I wear on stage in the opera house is not real, but the bling-bling I wear in concerts? Those are real!
— Anna Netrebko
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I have always felt an excellent rapport ever since my very first concert in Britain at Hampton Court. I have always felt understood. The British…
— Andrea Bocelli
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Opera is complex for those who perform it, but also for those who listen to it. It takes more time, more patience and more spirit…
— Andrea Bocelli
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My real passion is for opera. It was born and developed by listening to records, and my dream as a child was to record entire…
— Andrea Bocelli
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I was 11 when a teacher suggested to my parents that they should send me to drama classes to curb my disruptive ways in the…
— David Wenham
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Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks like a soap…
— Isabel Allende
Who Wrote These Opera Quotes
410 authors contributed a total of 551 Opera Quotes, led by these top contributors: