324 Opera Quotes for You to Enjoy

I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working out there. A lot of Mexicans - the blacks and the whites and the Mexicans, all out there singing, and it was like an opera in the cotton fields, and I can still hear it in the music that I write and play today. Willie Nelson

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I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me. Ian Mckellen

Love Me Circus Musicals Performance Opera Ballet

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera. Stephen Hawking

Music Enjoy Classical Opera Forms Pop

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

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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand. Edward Appleton

Language Mind Long Sung Opera Understand

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. Robert Benchley

Back Guy He Instead Opera Sings Gets Where Dying

My favorite type of music to sing would be between R and B and opera. Stefano Langone

Music Type Favorite Would Would-Be Between Opera Sing

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer. Adam Johnson

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The Calandra Institute, the Metropolitan Opera Archives, the library at Lincoln Center, and the Fashion Institute of Technology were helpful and key to piecing together what life must have been like at the turn of the last century. Adriana Trigiani

Music and opera are a big part of my life. Ailyn Perez

Life Music My Life Big Part Opera Big Part

Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life. Aleksa Palladino

Life Mom Family Parents Other Everyone Way Both Both My Parents Never Opera Opera Singer Singer Any Artist Any Other Way Process Painters Shown

I took opera lessons. I can't read music to save my life, but I would just copy and get away with it. I think that they thought I could read music, but I can't. I would just listen. Alex Winston

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I don't expect people who've enjoyed 'Spy Kids' will enjoy 'Repo! the Genetic Opera!' Alexa Vega

People Will Enjoy Kids Genetic Opera Spy Expect Enjoyed

'Next To Normal' is rock music. It's a rock opera. That, definitely, has a place in popular music. Alice Ripley

Music Definitely Opera Rock Rock Music Normal Place Next Popular Popular Music

I'm an obsessive musical theatre person, so some of the most formative albums for me were, you know, the 'Phantom Of The Opera' soundtrack or 'Into The Woods.' Allison Williams

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My mother was an opera singer and my grandmother a concert pianist, and they only liked classical music. If I put on a pop record, they would tell me to turn it off, so I only listen to classical. Amanda Eliasch

To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion. Andrea Bocelli

Needs Passion Above Voice Opera Sing Things Two

In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists. The entire course of study has confirmed what I already thought, that the value and meaning of opera singing, at the beginning of the third millennium, remain intact. Andrea Bocelli

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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete. Andrea Bocelli

Athlete Similar Opera Singer Sings Activity

More people are listening to opera, and I'm happy - everybody must be given that opportunity. Andrea Bocelli

Happy People Opportunity Listening Everybody Must Given More More People Opera

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