Aria Quotes

• My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff.

  Dominic Chianese

  Father, Believe, Italian

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• For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.

  Rita Dove

  Years, Heard

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• When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight

  Michael Bolton

  Fighting, Heavyweights, Training

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• I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day. My face got burned off when she sang the aria 'Donde Lieta Usci.' The woman was technically sobbing and singing opera at the same time. I don't know how you do that.

  Nina Arianda

  Singing, Opera, Singers

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• Am I the only one who thinks Nancy Grace's relentless cheer leading for Jodi Arias' death gross & excessive? The anchor as executioner?!

  Geraldo Rivera

  Cheer, Thinking, Anchors

  FaceBook post by Geraldo Rivera from May 24, 2013

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• The aria, after all, is the soul of opera.

  Richard Strauss

  Soul, Opera

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• Why should I? When someone insulted Caruso, did he sing an aria for him?

  Joe Louis

  Boxing, Should, Insulted

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• Geoff Nelder's ARIA has the right stuff. He makes us ask the most important question in science fiction-the one about the true limits of personal responsibility.

  Brad Linaweaver

  Responsibility, Important, Fiction

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• Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience into the starscape of history's night. The materials of memoir are humble, fugitive, a cottage knitting industry seeking narrative truth across the crevasse of time as autobiography folds itself into the vast, fluid essay that is history. A single voice singing its aria in a corner of the crowded world.

  Patricia Hampl

  Humble, Night, Knitting

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• Fine,' Aria conceded. 'But *I'll* carry her.' She grabbed the baby seeat from the back. A smell of baby powder wafted up to greet her, bringing a lump in her throat. Her father Byron, and his girlfriend, Meredith, had just had a baby, and she loved Lola with all her heart. If she looked too long at this baby, she might love her just as much.

  Sara Shepard

  Baby, Girlfriend, Father

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• Why don't you like Noel Kahn?" Mike's voice made Aria jump. He stood a few feet away from Aria with a carton of orange juice in his hand."He's the man." Aria groaned. "If you like him so much why don't you go out with him?

  Sara Shepard

  Men, Hands, Orange Juice

  Sara Shepard (2014). “Pretty Little Liars: The First Half 8-Book Collection: Pretty Little Liars, Flawless, Perfect, Unbelievable, Wicked, Killer, Heartless, Wanted”, p.77, Harper Collins

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• Jazz is an endless source of ideas, because you can use anything. You can play operatic arias. You can incorporate them into jazz. You can play gypsy music and incorporate it into jazz. You can European classical and you can incorporate it into jazz. You can use anything and jazz it up, as they used to say.

  Sonny Rollins

  Play, Ideas, Use

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• They will be like shadows, they will be like wraiths, gray members of a congregation of nightmare; hark! his long wavering howl . . . an aria of fear made audible. The wolfsong is the sound of the rending you will suffer, in itself a murdering.

  Angela Carter

  Long, Suffering, Shadow

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• I kind of have to go to the bathroom," Aria said woozily. Ezra smiled. "Can I come?

  Sara Shepard

  Lust, Bathroom, Kind

  Sara Shepard (2014). “Pretty Little Liars and The Lying Game Starter Collection: Pretty Little Liars, Pretty Little Liars #2: Flawless, The Lying Game, The Lying Game #2: Never Have I Ever”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to painting, so sequence in steps - their syntax, idiom, vocabulary - are the stuff of stage dancing.

  Lincoln Kirstein

  Dance, Vocabulary, Color

  Lincoln Kirstein (1970). “Four Centuries of Ballet: Fifty Masterworks”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• 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 cooking is what I'm best at.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Artist, Cooking, Portraits

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• The first and perhaps the most important requirement for a successful writing performance - and writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig - is to understand the nature of the occasion.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Writing, Successful, Dancing

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• Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability. His specialty is rhythm songs which he renders in an undistinguished whine; his phrasing, if it can be called that, consists of the stereotyped variations that go with a beginner's aria in a bathroom. For the ear, he is an unutterable bore.

  Jack Gould

  Song, Singing, Beginners

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• I think one reason I'm drawn to expansive syntax is that arias are so often exercises in extending language as a means of intensifying feeling.

  Garth Greenwell

  Mean, Exercise, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Nobody learns a German aria overnight, except Jared Harris.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  "Sherlock Holmes 2 Cast & Crew Interview". Press conference, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• I feel most spiritual when I am listening to a soprano voice soaring to the top of its range at the most dramatic point of an aria. It feels like a geyser shooting up from the center of the earth and reaching for the stars.

  China Forbes

  Spiritual, Stars, Voice

  "China Forbes, Lead singer of Pink Martini: Always Growing". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• My arias make me take off as if I were on a trampoline.

  Jessye Norman

  Trampolines, Ifs

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• 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 my system and I played with it.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Lying, Butterfly, One Day

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• I love it when an aria fits a singer as perfectly as a suit of well-tailored clothes.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Clothes, Suits, Singers

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• An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and a large amount of variation and repetition. That's the beauty of it. It's not taxing to the listener's intelligence because if you haven't heard it the first time round, it'll come around again.

  James Fenton

  Small Numbers, Ideas, Example

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