Opera Quotes - Page 2

Whisky making is an act of cooperation between the blessings of nature and the wisdom of man.

Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute.

We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.

I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.

The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it to the public.

We all have to rise in the end, not just one or two who were smart enough, had will enough for their own salvation, but all the halt, the maimed and the blind of us which is most of us.

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

Hey yogurt, if you're so cultured, how come I never see you at the opera?

Strictly cop and go's until we laid in the Galapagos Eating tacos, higher than an opera note

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor or a prima donna.

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.

My dream is to be played everywhere, not only at the Opera.

There's no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn't exist.

I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.

I had a lot of classical influences. I had classical music and opera and literature, but I also liked sleaze. And putting it together, sleaze and glamour, it just made sense to me.

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.

We will never make a 32-bit operating system.

Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.

The earth was once molten rock and now sings operas.

We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE.

Doing things for others always pays dividends.

We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.