Quotes by Opera Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music. John Philip Sousa opera powerful beauty Why does one never hear of government funding for the preservation and encouragement of comic strips, girlie magazines and TV soap operas? Because these genres still hold the audience they were created to amuse and instruct. John Updike opera government encouragement The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera. Josh Lanyon opera I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama. Joyce Maynard soap opera thinking Women in Hollywood are tiny, but women in soap operas are the tiniest people alive! Julie Bowen opera alive people As a teenager I studied opera, believe it or not. But I just couldn't catch on to it. Karen Black opera teenager believe Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career. Kassie DePaiva opera careers believe People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible. Katherine Jenkins opera two people I'm still wondering about the Phantom in the chair, you know at the end of Phantom [of the Opera], so I guess that's my sort of idiocy. I still haven't figured out how they do that. Katherine Shindle phantoms opera wonder I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things. Katherine Jenkins mixtures opera broadway I am a person. I am not a soap opera. There is never going to be a next [tabloid] installment about my life because my own stuff is my own stuff. Kate Winslet tabloids opera stuff I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn’t want to continue opera because I wanted to act. Kelli O'Hara opera want wanted Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. Kenneth Clark opera gdp men Soap operas got nothing on my family history. Kiersten White soap opera my-family Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute. Kiri Te Kanawa opera minutes lifetime It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany. Klaus Nomi sopranos opera germany You'll find in Africans a fantastic amount of heavy space opera and so on, going on ... which makes the colored African very, very interesting to process because he doesn't know why he goes through all these dances ... and why he feels so barbarous. L. Ron Hubbard opera space interesting In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse. Kurt Vonnegut opera hopeless real Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or by stage directors, never by musicians. Laurence Equilbey opera house running 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? Laurie Anderson opera hey artist «345678910111213»