324 Opera Quotes for You to Enjoy

What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring. Ian Mcewan

Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work. Ildar Abdrazakov

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In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera. Israel Zangwill

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Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley. Jack Dangermond

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I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work. Jack Wagner

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I started a novel in the back of a notebook, and it was great because it looked like I was taking notes. And I just, I kept it up, it was sort of fantasy, it was part soap opera. It was utterly dreadful, but that's how I got hooked. Jacqueline Carey

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Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera. Jacqueline Novogratz

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

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When I was younger, I felt it essential to see every movie ever made. Now I feel as though I've got to read every book, see every art show, watch every play and opera and concert and so on. It does not end, and of course there is truth in the old cliche that the more one knows, the more one realizes one knows nothing at all. James Gray

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Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment, but it could easily happen that orchestras could slowly atrophy. Jeffrey Tate

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I think my great-grandpa was an opera singer or something. Jennifer Damiano

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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

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Both my mother and my grandmother aspired to be opera singers. And they studied it. Jihae

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Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge. Jo Nesbo

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