Opera Quotes - Page 29

• It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.

  David Hockney

  Drawing, Design, Fax

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• Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.

  Paul Virilio

  Art, Reality, Sculpture

  Source: ctheory.net

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• As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed in any other way, or certainly not as beautifully.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Art, Drama, Way

  Luciano Pavarotti (1995). “Pavarotti, My World”, Crown Pub

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• The opera ghost really existed

  Gaston Leroux

  Ghost

  Gaston Leroux (2014). “The Phantom of the Opera By Gaston Leroux”, BookRix

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• Lots of opera singers are just boring.

  Anna Netrebko

  Singers, Boring, Opera Singers

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• If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.

  Jaime Winstone

  Want, Costumes, Melodrama

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• What's difficult to understand about German opera? It's always the same. Boy meets girl, boy falls in love, girl gets devoured by horrible winged creature with claws.

  Susan Wiggs

  Girl, Falling In Love, Boys

  Susan Wiggs (2016). “Susan Wiggs The Calhoun Chronicles Books 4-5: Enchanted Afternoon\A Summer Affair”, p.61, MIRA

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• As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always a great way to get more of the public to connect with classical music, and opera particularly.

  Lesley Garrett

  Important, Attention, Way

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• There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Song, Ballet, Alleys

  Song: Jungleland, Album: Born To Run, 1975

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• We would never get away from it. ... It's bad enough as it is, but with the wireless telephone one could be called up at the opera, in church, in our beds. Where could one be free from interruption?

  Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin

  Science, Church, Telephones

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• I don't like rock opera with back beats.

  Robin Gibb

  Rocks, Beats

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

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• Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam Connell.

  Steven-Elliot Altman

  Kings, Names, Voice

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• Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

  Renee Fleming

  Singers, Able, Crosses

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. May 21, 2005.

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• My wife was an opera singer, you know. She bellowed her way through Wagner as a Valkyrie. I married her and made her give up the theatre, to my eternal cost. She was to go on acting for myself alone. A performance at his own expense, lasting for more than twenty years, tends to wear out your spectator.

  Jean Anouilh

  Giving Up, Years, Wife

  Jean Anouilh “The Waltz of the Toreadors”

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• We are riveted by the soap operas of public lives. We admire the famous most for what makes them infamous: it reassures us that they are not better and no happier than all the people with their noses pressed hard against the glass.

  Maureen Dowd

  Glasses, People, Noses

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• Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor leisure to let tender expressions soften or sink into her heart. The ball, the show, are not the dangerous places: no, 'tis the private friend, the kind consoler, the companion of the easy vacant hour, whose compliance with her opinions can flatter her vanity, and whose conversation can sooth, without ever stretching her mind, that is the lover to be feared: he who buzzes in her ear at court, or at the opera, must be contented to buzz in vain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Girl, Passion, Heart

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.256

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• Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Teamwork, Venture, Corporations

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• I was going to be a singer. If I hadn't been in my profession, I was going to be an Opera singer. That's from a young kid. I had all these records from all those famous Opera singers. I wanted to be an Opera singer - that was my whole thing and physical fitness got in the way, thank God.

  Jack LaLanne

  Kids, Thank God, Way

  Interview with Antonia Venezia, aliveeastbay.com. March 2007.

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• When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.

  Kevin Spacey

  People, Watches, Three

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• If TV seems improved, I think it's been enhanced by violence and sex permissible on cable, as well as better cinematography, but in the end it's really only soap operas like your grandmother's afternoon "stories" and that's all it wants to be or has to be.

  William Monahan

  Sex, Grandmother, Thinking

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• I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less worker ants, working for either film companies or tv companies or Internet companies. We do a lot of assigned work. Feelings hardly ever enter into it. If they do, they tend to be on a sort of soap opera level.

  Larry Gelbart

  Writing, California, Southern

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again.

  Ray Bradbury

  Mean, Years, Gears

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The sympathies of a well-adjusted person can easily be aroused by the plight of strangers. Indeed, the skillful writer of a novel, a play, or an opera can engage our emotions on behalf of people who are not only strangers to us, but who do not even exist! And a person whose emotions cannot be so aroused is not behaving normally.

  John Derbyshire

  Play, People, Plight

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• The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.

  Alan Hirsch

  Kings, Bangs, Kingdoms

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.38, Baker Books

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• People's reactions to opera the first time they see it is very dramatic; they either love it or they hate it. If they love it, they will always love it. If they don't, they may learn to appreciate it, but it will never become part of their soul.

  J. F. Lawton

  Hate, People, Appreciate

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