Dreams Quote by John Eaton

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

— Alexander McCall Smith

Opera is a key way of talking about life and all the things that are important to people in life.

— Mark Getty

Opera requires an enormous commitment. You must devote your whole life to producing that extraordinary sound.

— Roger Allam

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

— Luciano Pavarotti

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

— Diane Paulus

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

As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed…

— Luciano Pavarotti

Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music…

— William Bolcom

To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice…

— Junichiro Koizumi

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

— Carlisle Floyd

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

Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.

— Luciano Pavarotti