Wisdom Quote by Cellan Slarcas

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

— Kenneth Clark

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

— Steve Lacy

An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?

— Rutherford B. Hayes

That's the extraordinary thing about opera: it has the power to elicit a physical reaction. I don't know if I'd have been any good…

— Roger Allam

There's no rational reason why opera should exist. It's expensive, time consuming. Yet in some shape or other it has always existed.

— Jake Heggie

You know, one of the classics when somebody invents something, you go why the hell didn't I think of that.

— Anthony Head

I was very fascinated by the time when firearms went from being fire sticks to being something people could use to hunt and to…

— Joe Perry

If it wasn't for my primary school teacher reminding me to be observant, I may not have had the inspiration to think of my…

— Zhou Qunfei

Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised.

— Judith Schaechter

A weapon kills people and makes people in cities dominated by fear. But if you turn it into an instrument, it's like social gold.…

— Pedro Reyes

Opera takes the human voice to the absolute limits of what it is capable of doing.

— Jackie Fuchs

I know it is one of the most important instruments and inventions, the electric guitar, to me, since television or movies or anything like…

— John 5