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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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"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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"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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"Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me."
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"This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it."
Opera
"I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines."
Sensibility
"I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs."
Age
"This is about black people selling out other black people."
People
"I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off."
Music
"A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business."
Business
"If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to."
Fans
"I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles."
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"I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred."
Country
"People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They've known George Bush four."
People
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