Adrift Quote by David Edelstein

I'll be honest, watching the music industry collapse has been demoralizing and disheartening at times.

— Trent Reznor

The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst.

— Jan Hammer

Nowadays New-York is not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in the socket.…

— Madonna Ciccone

It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on.

— Christoph Waltz

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

— Renee Fleming

I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is…

— Renee Fleming

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.

— Rudolf Bing

I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe and see…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement.…

— Baz Luhrmann

They were missing all the enthusiasm, the creativity; that whole excitement about the music was lost. A lot of people are really going back…

— Lester Bowie

Opera needs to be a total escape from real life. To relate to what we're going through today is fine and dandy, but it's…

— Rufus Wainwright

Some of the opera houses in Italy had to be burnt down because people could neither see nor hear. They gave up seeing years…

— Philip Johnson