Music making Quote by Claude Debussy Download Open image “The trouble with the opera is there's always to much singing.” — Claude Debussy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Music making Opera Singing Trouble
One of the problems with musicals and opera is you can't ever hear all the words. — Tim Rice Copy Share Image
The idea is not to have one great singer surrounded by a bunch of nit wits. When the others are good, too, that's when… — Richard Bonynge Copy Share Image
Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice. — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble. — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out. — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of studies, attempts,… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I had been warned by other directors that opera is hell. The singers don't want to do what you want. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps? — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all,… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
the colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against… — Nils Frahm Copy Share Image
The reason I was drawn to the Band Perry was because they have a knack for doing rollicking country music that can sound a… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
There has always been a feeling with people that they love my singing but not always the choice of material. — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer. — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
When I act, I act. When I sing, I sing. I don't put one over the other. Entertaining is what I do best. — Irene Cara Copy Share Image
Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands? — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
