Opera Quotes - Page 18

• If you think that there are actually covers that we haven't done on 'Glee' that I could then put on an album... We've done everything! Pretty soon we're just going to have to start doing opera and stuff on the show.

  Lea Michele

  Thinking, Glee, Albums

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• Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won. The rest is suffering and historical opera.

  Michael Ventura

  Historical, Enemy, Suffering

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• Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The words of 'Auld Lang Syne' are good, but the music is an old air, the rudiments of the modern tune of that name. ... Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. ... Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure thrill the deepest notes of woe. ... Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

  Robert Burns

  Cutting, Men, Scotch

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• I never socialized with singers. It's very dangerous if you work with opera... I don't think that in 30 years a singer has entered my apartment.

  Rudolf Bing

  Thinking, Years, Singers

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• Is as if the music is another character or as if it was a part of this great opera. I also through about this project as a structure or as a sculpture made out of colors, rhythm, characters, and brush strokes, but with every single one of these always supporting one another.

  Alex Abreu

  Character, Color, Sculpture

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If life is a soap opera you shouldn't be in too much of a hurry to get to the final credits.

  Michael Portillo

  Death, Finals, Credit

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• The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.

  Stefan Kanfer

  Stuff, Soap, Misery

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• One of my sisters wanted to be an opera singer. So, we spent a few dollars to try to train her, because Italian people would like to have an opera singer in the family. But she's got trouble coughing, let alone singing. One day, she was in the shower singing 'Madame Butterfly,' three days later the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor.

  Pat Cooper

  Butterfly, Italian, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music?... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.

  Lady Gaga

  Mom, Grandma, Inspiration

  "Lady Gaga On Love and Lies". Harper's Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 5, 2014.

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• Opera on television in Europe is very important. If you think about it in the broadest sense: a lot of the dramas made in India with music are practically operas. They're not sung but they have a very big appeal. I don't know why American television people are so stupid but at the moment, they just seem to have some sort of a block. They just do what they do and they do it for a certain number of years. Then it wears out and they try something else. It's just a matter of time I think.

  Robert Ashley

  Drama, Stupid, Block

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• My father, my uncles, my aunts, from my father's side and my mother's side... they were all professional musicians. My father was a concert master, he took me to a lot of rehearsals, concerts, performances, opera, ballet. For me, that was life.

  Lalo Schifrin

  Mother, Uncles, Father

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• I was very young, maybe five. The opera was very... I was attracted to opera to the point that I think it's the reason I started to write music for films. I never studied. There are film and music school that teach you how to write music. I never studied that. But the influence of opera, which is a combination of storyline, visuals, staging, plus music... that was perhaps the best school I could have had. That's what gave me the idea of coming to Hollywood to write music for films.

  Lalo Schifrin

  School, Writing, Thinking

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• If you put together all the ingredients that naturally attract children - sex, violence, revenge, spectacle and vigorous noise - what you have is grand opera.

  Judith Martin

  Sex, Children, Revenge

  "Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior". Book by Judith Martin, 1982.

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• Prima Donna is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Song, Kind, Prima Donnas

  "Rufus Wainwright: 'I was looking right into her face when my mother died'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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• It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany.

  Klaus Nomi

  Germany, Sopranos, Falsetto

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• I am a living soap opera.

  Virginia Graham

  Soap, Soap Operas

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• Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.

  Bruce Beresford

  World, Popularity, Audience

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• My real passion is for opera. It was born and developed by listening to records, and my dream as a child was to record entire operas when I grew up, and this dream came true.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Dream, Children, Real

  "Opera Star Andrea Bocelli: Faith Is the Only Way Forward". Interview with Mark Hensch, www.christianpost.com. November 28, 2011.

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• I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.

  Edward Young

  Thinking, June, Practice

  Edward Young (1802). “The Works of the Author of The Night-thoughts”, p.127

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• When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I'm very happy. Because it's the same thing that happened to me as a child. When I first heard the tenor voice, I immediately fell in love with this kind of music.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Children, Voice, People

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• I have always felt an excellent rapport ever since my very first concert in Britain at Hampton Court. I have always felt understood. The British understand opera very well.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Firsts, Excellent, Hamptons

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• Opera is complex for those who perform it, but also for those who listen to it. It takes more time, more patience and more spirit of sacrifice. All this is well worth it because opera offers such deep sensations that they will remain in a heart for a lifetime.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Heart, Sacrifice, Spirit

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• Ask most kids about details about Auschwitz or about how the American Indians were assassinated as a people and they don't know anything about it. They don't want to know anything. Most people just want their beer or their soap opera or their lullaby.

  Marlon Brando

  Kids, Beer, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.

  Julie Taymor

  Emotional, Thinking, Landscape

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or by stage directors, never by musicians.

  Laurence Equilbey

  Running, House, Musician

  "There Will Be Joy". Interview with Lydia Perović, logger.believermag.com. August 1, 2013.

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