Three Quote by Mikis Theodorakis Download Open image “I'll write three operas - one for Verdi, one for Puccini, and one for Bellini.” — Mikis Theodorakis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Three Write
I had been reading a fabulous book [The Man Verdi, by Frank Walker] about [Giuseppe] Verdi, whom I adore. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I thought that if I were going into old age I would want to do what [Giuseppe] Verdi did, which is to write extraordinary… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
As a young man, I wooed, unsuccessfully, with Puccini. It's important to get your operas right. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970. — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto. One of my closest friends is a composer,… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of operas. I've probably done more different kind of operas than anybody. — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
My greatest experiences in the theatre and the most religious experiences in my life - of which going to the opera is one for… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, one of my roommates my freshman year was a big opera fan. I had seen some… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
This taste of freedom is still bitter because left in Athens are my wife and my two children and because so many of my… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
I wanted to unite the popular and the serious, and to make a popular symphony, a popular oratorio. — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
I was thankful to him, this man who freed me. At the same time I was annoyed be cause the man who freed me… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
We people, maybe because we have the greatest wisdom, we are also mad. We destroy the harmony of the world. — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
When I was still a child, there was the Metaxis, a Fascist Youth Movement in which all subteenagers and teenagers were obligatory members, where… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
I'm not a communist or social democrat or anything else. I'm a free man. — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
The established politicians, who before the war preached national pride and Christian love, were the first to collaborate with the Germans. But the communists,… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
I like always to be contemporary. I like to deal with the things of today. — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
My work is based upon contemporary Greek poetry - poetry which is concerned with the problems of today's civilization and, of course, with simple… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
In my youth there must have been 15 synagogues in Salonika alone. — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
My father's father fought to free Crete from the Turks, who expelled my mother from her ancestral home in Asia Minor in 1922. So… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
Once ye made up yer mind to do somethin', 'tis better t'stumble o'er the small hillock of jump-ahead than t'bash yer head on the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
I have three words for you," EMT Guy said. "Possible internal bleeding." I turned back to him. "Don't you think if I was bleeding… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
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When I was 13, I auditioned for the theater school, and I was there for four years. In the meantime, I did my first… — Ana de Armas Copy Share Image
The market may never coalesce around one basic design, or even around two or three dominant devices. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
There may be little practical difference between a Ford Mondeo and a BMW three series, but in terms of perceptions of who you are… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Meanwhile someone is shining my head to get it dry to attach my top-hat to my head with toupee tape. I get into microphone… — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
There's more than 1700 emails out of the thirty three thousand Hillary Clinton emails that we've published, just about Libya. It's not that Libya… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
What about you three, where are you going?" Even before Halt answered, Will knew what he was going to say. But that didn't make… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
