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

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

"Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint."

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

"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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"And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product."

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"One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed."

"I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs."
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