Opera Quotes - Page 19

• I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera.

  Bruce Campbell

  Character, Littles, Soap

  "Bruce Campbell and Sharon Gless Talk Burn Notice". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. August 6, 2009.

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• I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

  Bruce Beresford

  Staging

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• Art is all about the experience. I could say I dont really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, Blimey, look at that.

  David Harewood

  Art, Watches, Looks

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• I started working in front of the camera for the first time when I was 15 years old. I joined a soap opera. We filmed in Brooklyn and I would skip class to shoot my scenes. It was terrifying and I entirely self-conscious in front of the camera.

  Paul Wesley

  Class, Self, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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, Singers

  2003 In the Observer, 7 Dec.

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• I wouldn't know anything about opera music if it wasn't for Bugs Bunny. That was my entire introduction to opera music. I wouldn't know anything about classical music if it wasn't for "Fantasia." They didn't have to do that stuff. They chose to base this ridiculous, funny, intriguing, creative story on this beautiful classical music. It's the combination of the high and the low that I thought was very cool. But I had no concept of it as a kid.

  Jon Hamm

  Beautiful, Kids, Creative

  "MINIONS: Allison Janney and Jon Hamm Talk Animation, Their Characters, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 9, 2015.

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• I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

  Bob Edwards

  Grandmother, Soap, Used

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• I remember someone once saying, "Pete, you know you really should take voice lessons." And I said, "Well, if I could find any voice teacher that could teach me to sing like Lead Belly I'd spend every cent to study under him." But every time you'd go to a voice teacher, he'd teach you to warble, as if you'd want to be an opera singer, and that's not what I'm interested in.

  Pete Seeger

  Teacher, Voice, Lessons

  Source: www.folkmusicworldwide.com

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• There's a kind of a line between music and math, so I guess I got the music gene, thank goodness. But my mother wasn't too thrilled. She wanted me to go to university and get a degree or do something, and my father, he liked opera so he wasn't too thrilled either, because he wanted me to be an opera singer and I didn't have - as he said, I don't really have the strength to do that.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Mother, Father, Math

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire.

  Bruce Beresford

  Views, Permanent

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• Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.

  Sarah Caldwell

  Color, Voice, Illusion

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• When I do get to chow down on a book, I try to read ones that are nothing like what I'm writing. So, as I'm currently working on a space opera (of sorts) I'm mostly indulging in urban fantasy.

  Charles Stross

  Book, Writing, Space

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• I went to film school when I was 17, and of course when you are very young you think that there is nothing else in the world except film. At some point I started getting hungry to see something else. For five years I didn't make any films, I was traveling around the world, writing for newspapers, working in theater, working in opera, I thought I would never return to film.

  Pirjo Honkasalo

  School, Writing, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I've been singing my whole life, since I was a kid; but never formally as a career. I did it in plays when I was younger, and I sang all styles of music: everything from Italian opera to blues.

  Brittany Murphy

  Kids, Italian, Play

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• 'Macbeth' is one of the best operas ever, and doing it was a great experience. I added some things to the opera based from my experience on the movie - such as some of the special effects and bits of film - to make it new and interesting. It was a very good work and a very good experience.

  Dario Argento

  Interesting, Special, Film

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• If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.

  Thomas Beecham

  Immortality, Achieve, Organs

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• For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.

  Johannes Brahms

  Delight, Shallow, Matrimony

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• Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  Used, Wagner, Glad

  Ralph Vaughan Williams (1987). “National Music: And Other Essays”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I think I'm aware of entering my late 30s versus being in my late 20s, when the web was coming out as this new thing. It reminds me of how people used to tell me about my great-grandmother and how they used to gather around a radio listening to soap operas.

  Kalup Linzy

  Grandmother, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For more than 13,000 days on the run, my life was a soap opera.

  Ronald Biggs

  Running, Soap, Soap Operas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• I am singing in an operatic voice for the public, to bring something more to Rock and Roll. Because in a Rock and Roll performance, the singer talks to the public whereas in Opera the singer only talks to a character, inside a story. The public sees this as a picture, I want to transport this picture into the room where the public is.

  Klaus Nomi

  Character, Rock And Roll, Voice

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• Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

  Kenneth Clark

  Men, Gdp, Next

  Kenneth Clark, British Broadcasting Corporation (1970). “Civilization”, London : British Broadcasting Corporation

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• I was nostalgic even as a young man. Preferred listening to Opera not Bing Crossby.

  Ruskin Bond

  Men, Listening, Nostalgic

  Source: www.abhijitbhaduri.com

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• Tom [Courtenay] and Albert Finney met Ron Harwood on the dresser, so that's how it started. It's a wonderful documentary. It's called Tosca's Kiss and Mr Hardwood told me about it when I asked him what the genesis was. It was made in 1983 and Verdi, who was rich and successful, toward the end of his life decided to build a mansion for himself in Milan, where he lived, and he stipulated that when he died opera singers and musicians - because he knew so many who were no longer playing at the Scala and some were poor - could live there.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Successful, Kissing, Musician

  "Quartet - Dustin Hoffman interview". Press conference, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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