Filled Quote by Dennis Lehane

My earlier books, 'The Oath,' 'This Present Darkness' were pretty straight adventure. 'The Visitation' is like a deeper book, more thought-provoking. It probes at…

— Frank Peretti

“At the opera, the music makes no sense; here in the street it has just the right demented touch to give it poignancy.”

— Henry Miller

In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in the people's…

— Joni Mitchell

Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.

— Shane Koyczan

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.

— Cleveland Amory

I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.

— Zola Jesus

Every time I go to a new place, more likely than not, I end up seeing an opera there. It's ended up being a…

— Stana Katic

I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the…

— Charles Lamb

In a pure anonymous encounter you find a world alive and full of character. In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are…

— Joni Mitchell

I love street, adore street. Life is about mixing things and to be divine in the streets. Voila!

— Polly Allen Mellen

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

— H. L. Mencken

'Hester Street' was my most complete character study, but 'Annie Hall' and 'The Last Detail' were also great.

— Carol Kane