Operatic Quotes

28 quotes by 26 authors

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
It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know. — William H. Macy
Perhaps the more â€˜operaticâ€™ video pieces were a reaction to my knit sculpture, which kept me isolated for so long in the studio that the… — Oliver Herring
But â€˜artâ€™ is not anything serious or exclusive: it is the smell of oil paint, Henri Murgerâ€™s Vie de Boheme, corduroy trousers, the operatic Italian… — Wyndham Lewis
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
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
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
I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it. — Zack Snyder
No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me. — Thomas Beecham
It's logical for us to sing, but not necessarily operatic pieces. — Jose Carreras
I have a horror of sunsets; they're so romantic, so operatic. — Marcel Proust
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
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
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
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
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
(...) 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
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
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
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

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