Opera Quotes - Page 27

• I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

  Joyce Maynard

  Thinking, Soap, Realistic

  "Joyce Maynard: Family Is Ultimate Source Of Inspiration" by Joyce Maynard, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 18, 2010.

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• I was raised on piano and saxophone and jazz music for ten or twelve years. Before I even picked up a bass. My whole family has always pushed the arts, you know? My brother is a doctor of music and my cousin is an opera singer over in Austria. Arts were always a big thing in our family.

  Matt Snell

  Art, Cousin, Brother

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.

  Frank Gehry

  Vacation, Thinking, People

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.

  Salma Hayek

  Mother, Children, Father

  "Salma Hayek: My family values". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2013.

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• H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Stores, Hardware

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• What's an opera if everyone is dead in it?

  Hugh Griffith

  Ifs

  "Fictional character: The Beggar". "The Beggar's Opera", www.imdb.com. 1953.

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• Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Sopranos, Tenors

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.41, RosettaBooks

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• Most of my escapades were getting my Labrador dog into the back of my car to drive to Brooklyn where I worked at Avenue M Studios shooting a soap opera and battling being a 17 to 18-year-old playing twins being afraid that I was going to get fired, because who wouldn't fire me? I had no idea what I was doing.

  Anne Heche

  Dog, Fire, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• Soaps taught me the fundamentals of the game. You know, how to show up, hit your mark, how to be on time. That soap opera world is a microcosm of the entertainment culture.

  Michael Weatherly

  Games, Culture, Fundamentals

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• I want to make these films that I think other people would be scared to do. I don't think anyone can go off and make a rock opera. I think it's a very specific niche.

  Darren Lynn Bousman

  Thinking, Rocks, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.

  Edward Abbey

  Hate, People, Musical

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.40, RosettaBooks

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• The only thing that really inspired me for singing was the movie and musical 'Phantom of the Opera.' I went to see it in the theaters, and I loved it so much. And when I got home, I started singing the songs around the house, and my mom thought I was really good, so she asked me if I wanted to do a talent competition. And I said, 'Yes, definitely.'

  Jackie Evancho

  Mom, Song, Home

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• Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama -- soap opera with literary trimmings.

  Edward Abbey

  Drama, Book, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.48, RosettaBooks

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• I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

  Emmy Rossum

  Training, Singers, Opera Singers

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• Ayn Rand called her novella Anthem a "hymn to man's ego." My approach to Anthem the play was to provide the story a further dimension through music and sound. The work is now larger than a hymn. It's really "spoken opera."

  Jeff Britting

  Men, Play, Hymns

  Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com

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• When I'm about to train a new opera, I first listen to how Jussi Björling did it. His voice was unique and it's his path that I want to follow. I would more than anything else wish that people compared me with Jussi Björling. It's like so I'm striving to sing.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Unique, Voice, People

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• I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, 'Do you think you could give me that?' That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I'm really far into this now, really committed. Like, I don't think I'd go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it's the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn't it?

  Janis Joplin

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.

  Jennifer Garner

  Baseball, Thinking, Games

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

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• A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime.

  Renee Fleming

  House, Want, Singers

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• I've been trying to find a redeeming feature to Palpatine, and the only one I've got so far is that he's clearly a patron of the arts because he goes to the opera.

  Ian McDiarmid

  Art, Trying, Features

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• I think opera music is very conservative, and Rock and Roll music is conservative as well, and that's why I'm trying to make a bridge between these two elements.

  Klaus Nomi

  Thinking, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• Reality TV has totally destroyed soap operas. They're gone. They used to be the biggest thing in the world - they're gone.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Reality, Gone, World

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• A whole new world of Italian music was springing up, and [Giuseppe] Verdi was seen as old. Boito got Verdi all excited about the possibility of doing another opera, another kind of opera. In fact, Verdi composed his two best operas, Otello and Falstaff, in his eighties.

  Maurice Sendak

  Italian, Two, Facts

  Source: www.hbook.com

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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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• Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.

  China Forbes

  Inspiration, Soul, Particular

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