Time Quote by Steven Johnson

Opera takes the human voice to the absolute limits of what it is capable of doing.

— Jackie Fuchs

Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.

— Beverly Sills

It's not that I always had this impeccable voice. Some 15-18 years ago, I started noticing that I could not reach higher octaves.

— K. J. Yesudas

In opera, there is always too much singing.

— Claude Debussy

I loved singing. But can you imagine my voice in an opera house?

— Vladimir Horowitz

You don't have to make a grand, exaggerated sound to sing opera.

— Andris Nelsons

Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song, I try…

— Andrea Bocelli

I would have loved to sing opera, but I have no voice. I used to sing along with records.

— Bruno Sammartino

I discovered later in life that there's not that many men with a counter-tenor vocal ability.

— Jimmy Somerville

As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from…

— Zola Jesus

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.

— Placido Domingo

An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest possible level,…

— Andrea Bocelli