Opera Quotes

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An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
View quotes by Maria Callas

I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anarchronism, almost the equivalent of smoking
View quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

Can Love be controlled by advice? (The Beggar's Opera 1728)
View quotes by John Gay

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself
View quotes by Nellie Melba

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding, he sings.
View quotes by Ed Gardner

The opera ain't over 'til the fat lady sings (Washington Post 3 June 1978)
View quotes by Dan Cook

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.
View quotes by David Ogilvy

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
View quotes by W H Auden

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.
View quotes by Judy Garland

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
View quotes by Hannah More

I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.
View quotes by W B Yeats

I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I do not understand.
View quotes by Sir Edward Appleton

It sucked [on his soap opera acting]
View quotes by Paolo Seganti

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.
View quotes by Noel Coward

So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.
View quotes by Beverly Sills

You are beautiful and faded
Like an old opera tune
Played upon a harpsichord.
View quotes by Amy Lowell

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it
View quotes by Hannah More

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

As a teenager I studied opera, believe it or not. But I just couldn't catch on to it.
View quotes by Karen Black

To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home!
View quotes by Lesley Garrett



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