Operatic Quotes
28 quotes by 26 authors
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If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.
— William H. Macy
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Perhaps the more ‘operatic’ video pieces were a reaction to my knit sculpture, which kept me isolated for so long in the studio that the…
— Oliver Herring
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But ‘art’ is not anything serious or exclusive: it is the smell of oil paint, Henri Murger’s Vie de Boheme, corduroy trousers, the operatic Italian…
— Wyndham Lewis
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A soprano in Massenet's Don Quixote complained that she had missed her entry in the aria, "because Mr. Challiapin always dies too soon." "Madam, you…
— Thomas Beecham
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These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.
— Vincent Bugliosi
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I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from…
— Martha Reeves
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I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
— Zack Snyder
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No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me.
— Thomas Beecham
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It's logical for us to sing, but not necessarily operatic pieces.
— Jose Carreras
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I have a horror of sunsets; they're so romantic, so operatic.
— Marcel Proust
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I have much to learn from my daughter Sofia. Her minimalism exposes my limitations: I'm too instinctive and operatic, I put too much heart into…
— Francis Ford Coppola
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Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing…
— Jerry Saltz
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Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so…
— Michael Sheen
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RJD was pretty much heavy metal personified, a tiny 5-foot-4-inch sorcerer with a mangy mane, demonic eyes and sly grin, all coupled to a simply…
— Mark Morford
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Gray imagined Kat scolding her husband in an operatic duet that has been going on between husbands and wives for ages, that eternal mix of…
— James Rollins
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(...) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and…
— James Joyce
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I started classical and operatic lessons when I was 8 and become an operatic singer and went to competition. I write my own music. A…
— Cassie Steele
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You have to have great passion, because to sing operatic music requires lots of work. I study for at least two hours every day. The…
— Andrea Bocelli
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We of the soft-crooning radio type of singer are giving the people what they want. The American public as a whole does not care for…
— Rudy Vallee
Who Wrote These Operatic Quotes
26 authors contributed a total of 28 Operatic Quotes, led by these top contributors: