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"If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role."
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"If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it."
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"I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera."
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"I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things."
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"Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama."
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"I really wanted to be an opera soprano."
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"This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it."
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"We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear ."
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"In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play."
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"I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy."
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"The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations."
Education
"I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things."
Opera
"There's a guy at the record company who's 30, and he says, I would not listen to these songs except in this context. Somehow the recording process, the arrangements, make it more accessible."
Company
"I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing."
Singing
"I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like."
Experience
"As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible."
Ability
"There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer."
Football
"I've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff."
Want
"I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part."
Being
"With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart."
Heart
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