Opera Quotes

551 quotes by 411 authors

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though. — Emmy Rossum
H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera. — Marlene Dietrich
I've been trying to find a redeeming feature to Palpatine, and the only one I've got so far is that he's clearly a patron of… — Ian McDiarmid
Soaps taught me the fundamentals of the game. You know, how to show up, hit your mark, how to be on time. That soap opera… — Michael Weatherly
I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she… — Janis Joplin
I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera. — Dorothy Malone
I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins. — Parker Posey
I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and… — Parker Posey
Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me. — Luciano Pavarotti
In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you… — Luciano Pavarotti
It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera. — Luciano Pavarotti
Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone. — Luciano Pavarotti
When I'm about to train a new opera, I first listen to how Jussi BjÃ¶rling did it. His voice was unique and it's his path… — Luciano Pavarotti
What's an opera if everyone is dead in it? — Hugh Griffith
Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?) — Edward Abbey
Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music. — Edward Abbey
Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern… — Edward Abbey
For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra plays the prelude… — Isaac Babel
New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime, echoes of traditional… — Wynton Marsalis
Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails,… — Julian Fellowes

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