Opera Quotes - Page 4

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

Collective Intelligence (CI) is the capacity of human collectives to engage in intellectual cooperation in order to create, innovate, and invent.

Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.

We've tried to keep as cheap and lean an operation as possible.

Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings.

Art needs an operation

The slightest cooperation with God's grace can provoke a massive spiritual change.

For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.

Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.

The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.

Culture is your operating system.

We've gone through the operating system and looked at everything and asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful at the same time.

You've got to let people be just, you know, people. Everyone does bad things sometimes, for all sorts of reasons. You've got to at least understand.

Every time I get in an elevator, the operator says the same thing to me: 'Basement?'

If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey, how come you're a jazz person, and you're making a pop opera?

Corporations can have no soul but they can love each other.

Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins.

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.

The success of a terrorist operation depends almost entirely on the amount of publicity it receives.

Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.

Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful.

No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.