"The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles."

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"But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows."

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"Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it."

John Eaton, American Politician

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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."

Sarah Caldwell, American Celebrity

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"If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role."

Judy Garland, American Actress

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"In opera, there is always too much singing."

Claude Debussy, French Composer

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"Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations."

Carlisle Floyd, American Composer

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"Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic."

Bobby Short, American Musician

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"Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera."

Chris Lowe, English Musician

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"This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it."

John Mellencamp, American Musician

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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."

Tom Wopat, American Actor

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"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces."

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"When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18."

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"Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it."

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"My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter."

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"When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted."

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"But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows."

"Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it."

"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."

"If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role."

"In opera, there is always too much singing."

"Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations."

"Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic."

"Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera."

"This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it."

"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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"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces."

"When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18."

"Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it."

"My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter."

"When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted."

"I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door."

"I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music."

"Music is such a problem in the time it takes."

"I wrote music as soon as I knew notation."

"In the end it doesn't matter what you do."