Operas Quotes
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Operas Quotes & Sayings
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I'm not sure any narrative model has been more important for me than Benjamin Britten's chamber operas.
— Garth Greenwell
I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
A resolution to attend theatres or operas is an absolute disqualification for Holy Orders.
— Samuel Wilberforce
I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.
— Bob Edwards
I'd like to direct more operas.
— Simon Callow
Reality TV has totally destroyed soap operas. They're gone. They used to be the biggest thing in the world - they're gone.
— Gilbert Gottfried
I've done a lot of operas. I've probably done more different kind of operas than anybody.
— Tod Machover
Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.
— Camille Paglia
I started in this business on soap operas.
— Lauren Holly
When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is.
— Carlisle Floyd
In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire.
— Bruce Beresford
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.
— Giuseppe Verdi
I am a living soap opera.
— Virginia Graham
It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new.
— Robert Wilson
The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.
— Bruce Beresford
Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.
— Ralph Vaughan Williams
I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.
— Virgil Thomson
Soap operas got nothing on my family history.
— Kiersten White
We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The earth was once molten rock and now sings operas.
— Brian Swimme
I'm a true opera buff. Operas make the best stories.
— Andrea Davis Pinkney
The operas I loved were nineteenth-century novels!
— John Irving
My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
— Harrison Birtwistle
I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put out an hour show in one day.
— Catherine Mary Stewart
Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam Connell.
— Steven-Elliot Altman
I want to do rock operas.
— Corey Feldman
I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.
— Werner Herzog
I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.
— Jennifer Garner
I saw a lot of operas from backstage and watched a lot of rehearsals - my parents were singers.
— Rosamund Pike
We used to listen to all the marvelous operas on records. Music was a very important part of our lives.
— Charlotte Rae
You have to think about the WWE as soap operas.
— Linda McMahon
Giovanni always had music running through his head. Moments he experienced in life recalled for him scenes from operas. [Giovanni Tempesta]
— Vincent B. "Chip" LoCoco
My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
— Harrison Birtwistle
