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- No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him… — Janis Joplin
- Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of… — Andrea Bocelli
- Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood
- In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing… — Andrea Bocelli
- The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not… — Robert Anton Wilson
- If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true… — Zola Jesus