Opera Quotes - Page 3

• Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

  Moliere

  Funny, Humorous, Men

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• Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

  Hannah More

  Funny, Women, Memorable

  Letter to her sister, 1775

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• Hey you! I told you to slow that nag down! Because of you, I almost heard the opera!

  Groucho Marx

  Hey, Because Of You, Heard

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• Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

  Mark Twain

  Music, Witty, Humorous

  Autobiography (published in 1924).

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• If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.

  Judy Garland

  Humor, Advice, Trying

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

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• When an opera star sings her head off? she usually improves her appearance.

  Victor Borge

  Funny, Music, Sarcastic

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• I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.

  Edward Victor Appleton

  Funny, Music, Sarcastic

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• Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.

  Peter Shaffer

  Couple, Stupid, Eye

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• I think every singer should be able to jump in for a singer who has been sick, for instance, and learn an opera in two days. I know people who can do it.

  Bryn Terfel

  Thinking, Two, People

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• I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Art, Italian, Turkeys

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2141, Delphi Classics

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• People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.

  Noel Coward

  Funny, Humorous, People

  Design for Living act 3, sc. 1 (1932)

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• Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.

  Don Rickles

  People, Singing, Fantastic

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• Many years ago I was in another soap opera called The Newcomers which was on twice a week for three years. I really don't think I could do another stint like that again.

  Jeremy Bulloch

  Thinking, Years, Three

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• What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't

  Cab Calloway

  Names, Two, And Love

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• It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  People, Important, Age

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• I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Boys, Smoking, Mind

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• I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

  Anthony Davis

  Writing, Voice, Telling Stories

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• I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Art, Games, Literature

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• Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

  Terry Pratchett

  Numbers, Failing, Happens

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Maskerade: (Discworld Novel 18)”, p.81, Random House

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• At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science.

  Deborah Bull

  House, Challenges, Television

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• Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

  Sarah Caldwell

  Successful, People, Process

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• Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra.

  Paul Bocuse

  Life Is Too Short, Meals, Orchestra

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• Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

  David Ogilvy

  Writing, Men, Agency

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• The more opera is dead, the more it flourishes.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Slavoj Žižek, Mladen Dolar (2002). “Opera's Second Death”, p.3, Psychology Press

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• Opera once was an important social instrument - especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi, people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.

  Luciano Berio

  Hands, People, Darkness

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