Opera Singers Quotes

• An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

  Maria Callas

  Long, Imagination, House

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• There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.

  Josh Groban

  Funny, Stars, Rocks

  VH1.com, November 23, 2003.

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• How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.

  Gioachino Rossini

  Funny, Music, Piano

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• There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

  Beverly Sills

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Conquering an Enemy Called Average". Book by John Mason, 1996.

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• In a way, being an opera singer is like being a very romantic sixteen-year-old who falls in love with great passion and conviction every month.

  Renee Fleming

  Falling In Love, Passion, Years

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  You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

  Beverly Sills

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Incredible Quotations: 230 Thought-Provoking Quotes with Prompts to Spark Students' Writing, Thinking, and Discussion". Book by Jacqueline Sweeney, 1997.

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• I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.

  Maria Callas

  Stage, Happens, Knows

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• Some may say that I couldn't sing, but no one can say that I didn't sing.

  Florence Foster Jenkins

  Singing, May, Opera

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• Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

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• When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

  Maria Callas

  Peace, Enemy, Criticism

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• We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative artists are always begging, but always being used when it's time to show us at our best.

  Leontyne Price

  Country, Art, Usa

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• That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

  Maria Callas

  Education, Teacher, Mean

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• If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Children, Believe, Taken

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• Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  People, Opera, Singers

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• You could live without the opera singer, but not without the services of the baker. On this ground you might say that the baker performs a greater service; but no lover of music would agree.

  Bertrand Russell

  Music, Bakers, Opera

  Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”

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• Lots of opera singers are just boring.

  Anna Netrebko

  Opera, Singers, Boring

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• An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest possible level, you need to refrain from activities so as to be able to express this power.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Athlete, Order, Levels

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• Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.

  Robert Breault

  Experience, Realizing, Interrupting

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• When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - its beyond belief.

  Eve Best

  Opera, Singers, Noise

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• There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire.

  Robert Breault

  Relationship, Break Up, Fire

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• When you decide to become an opera singer, it's a commitment that allows nothing else to interfere. Even your family - and I have a young daughter - has to take second place.

  Lucy Lawless

  Daughter, Commitment, Opera

  "Television Q&A". St. Petersburg Times, April 11, 1998.

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• It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.

  Johnny Mathis

  Morning, Night, Thinking

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• I don't have a rock voice. I have to force it. I am like an opera singer.

  Meat Loaf

  Rocks, Voice, Opera

  2003 In the Observer, 7 Dec.

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• I looked at the job of piano accompanist. It's a selfless position and generally they are odd people, according to opera singers I talked to. Just like everybody else, they want more from their life, but now their job is to make others shine.

  Simon Helberg

  Jobs, Piano, People

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I walked out of the theater and started crying. My wife asked me, 'Why are you crying?' I said, 'Because I can't do that.' I didn't know how he did it. I've never seen anything like that. It's like this feat, this Rodin sculpture to me. It's like hearing an opera singer and the tears go down your face because it's not human what they're doing. It's like sounds of heaven.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Wife, Heaven, Tears

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