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| Author | Quote | E-Mail this quote |
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| Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) | Opera, n. A play representing life in another world whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures, and no postures but attitudes. | |
| Australian Aborigine | If you have come to help me, you can go home. But if you see my struggle as part of your own survival, then perhaps we can work together. | |
| Ed Gardner | Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. | |
| Gioacchino Rossini | How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers. | |
| Golda Meir (1898 - 1978) | I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively. - (Israeli Prime Minister) | |
| H. L. Mencken | The opera . . . is to music what a bowdy house is to a cathedral. | |
| James Stephens | Sleep is an excellent way of listening to opera. | |
| Noel Coward | People are wrong when they say that the opera is not what is used to be. It is what it used to be. That's what's wrong with it. | |
| Sir Edward Appleton | I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand | |
| Sir Thomas Beecham (1879 - 1961) | No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me. | |
| W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973) | No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. |
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