Opera Quotes - Page 3

(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them?

If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway.

If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.

I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.

Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.

The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.

I propose that there is another kind of power based not on resources, things, or attributes, but rooted in the social and cooperative relations in which people are enmeshed by virtue of group life.

Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

Telephone operators have called me sir since I was 6.

It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.

It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?

Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict.

More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.

Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

I like working in a team, and at Ferrari there is always good cooperation.

Air transport is just a glorified bus operation.

Dichotomy = operation performed on lesbians to make them normal.

Like it or not, liberation for women will be achieved only with the full co-operation of men.

True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community.

It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good

One must differentiate between one's thoughts and one's emotions with full clarity and precision...No discussion, cooperation, agreement, or understanding is possible among men who substitute emotion for proof.

There is no economy in having one operation produce a part and another separate the good ones from the bad ones.