Aria Quote by Kurt Vonnegut Download Open image “In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.” — Kurt Vonnegut ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aria Hopeless Hopeless situations Life Opera Real Real life Situation
The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role,… — Maria Jeritza 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
Opera is a key way of talking about life and all the things that are important to people in life. — Mark Getty Copy Share Image
“Dido, heartbroken, decides to do what any operatic heroine would do at such a moment: sing an aria, then kill herself.” — Robert Greenberg Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match. — Bruce Beresford Copy Share Image
Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“You must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Have a good nap, did you?” said the porter. “Yes,” said Billy. “Man,” said the porter, “you sure had a hard-on.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in 1898, long before the First World War (1914-1918). In the title story he proves to his own grim satisfaction, and to mine as well, that Satan and not God created the planet earth and "the damned… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Thomas Jefferson High School [..] His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians on… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Her face was one of a kind, a surprising variation that made observers think, Yes--that would be another very nice way for people to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You finally fell in love, I see,” said Salo. “Only an Earthling year ago,” said Constant. “It took us that long to realize that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And contrast Mary Kathleen, if you will, with my wife Ruth, the Ophelia of the death camps, who believed that even the most intelligent human beings were so stupid that they could only make things worse by speaking their minds. It was thinkers, after all, who had set up the death camps. Setting up a death camp, with its railroad… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
One day I decided I would like to put a record into my system. So I picked up a record that was lying on the table, and put it on. I didn't bother to look at what it was because I didn't care, and it turned out to be Madame Butterfly. So I processed the aria from Madame Butterfly in… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share
“You don't hate it, then?" he asked after a while. "Knowing you're half... Savage?" "How could I hate what's kept me alive?" He had… — Veronica Rossi Copy Share Image
Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability. His specialty is rhythm songs which he renders in an undistinguished whine; his phrasing, if it can… — Jack Gould Copy Share Image
“She knew she could answer it. She knew how to put one foot in front of the other even when every step hurt. And… — Veronica Rossi Copy Share Image
“His eyes were heavy with desire, but she saw something else. A gleam that made her suspicious. "What?" she asked. His hand slid to her hips. "You're incredible." "That's not what you were thinking." "Was so. I always think that." He leaned in, twisting a strand of her hair around his finger as he kissed her bottom lip. "But I… — Veronica Rossi Copy Share
“She knew how to put one foot in front of the other even when every step hurt. And she knew there was pain in… — Veronica Rossi Copy Share Image
“Tell me what to say. What can I say to make you want me the way I want you?” — veronica rossi Copy Share Image
“I can't concentrate. I thought I could do this." He put his hands up in defeat. "Can't." Then he came closer. Aria didn't think… — Veronica Rossi Copy Share Image
When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight — Michael Bolton Copy Share Image
“Roar's mouth pulled into a smile - a beautiful smile she hadn't seen in weeks. "Beautiful, huh?" She drew her hand away, giving him… — Veronica Rossi Copy Share Image
If I were an opera singer, I"d have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your portrait. But… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
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