Entertainment Quote by Edward Abbey Download Open image “Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.” — Edward Abbey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Entertainment Form Hate Music Musical Opera People People Who Hate
Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music. — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
People who know me as a hard-core rocker who positively despises musicals might be surprised to find that I am a huge fan of… — Jackie Fuchs Copy Share Image
People's reaction to opera the first time they hear it is extreme...They either love it or they hate it. If they love it, they… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
I dislike those people that see an opera and say "Oh, they can't act it. They just sing. It's boring." Lean back and just… — Peter Stormare Copy Share Image
If you put together all the ingredients that naturally attract children - sex, violence, revenge, spectacle and vigorous noise - what you have is… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
People's reactions to opera the first time they see it is very dramatic; they either love it or they hate it. If they love… — J. F. Lawton Copy Share Image
I like the idea of people coming to opera for the first time and finding it an enjoyable experience. I don't like the fact… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but will all my heart. To me an opera is the very climax & cap-stone of the absurd, the fantastic the unjustifiable. I hate the very name of opera - partly because of the nights of suffering… — Mark Twain Copy Share
But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching… — John Eaton Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness? Why the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Some shows just go away - and that's fine. They serve their purpose and their entertainment value, but there are shows that touch people… — Michael Cudlitz Copy Share Image
You will see a 3-D movie in a movie theater for the shared experience of it - or for a date, and so on.… — Howard Stringer Copy Share Image
Sport is not just about entertainment. It is equally about winning and losing, pooling and galvanising the energy of the youth, upgrading people's physical… — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
It concerns me when people frame the conversation about equal pay about the entertainment business. I don't want the wage gap issue to be… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
For me, there's cinema, which I love and would fight for, and then there's also entertainment, and I see them as very, very different.… — Stacy Martin Copy Share Image
My father's a taxi driver. Working in entertainment, is not a part of the culture. It's something you try to do before you become… — Naughty Boy Copy Share Image
If the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labour, entertainment… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
(in the film "That's Entertainment!" - 1974) Thank God for film, it can capture a moment and hold it there forever. If anyone ever… — Liza Minnelli Copy Share Image
I know when I'm not dancing, and I go home, I usually work with my dad, who's an electrician. So I do stuff like… — Tristan MacManus Copy Share Image
