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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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"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."
"If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role."
"The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge."
"This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's 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."
"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."
"Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers."
"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 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."
"We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well."
"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."
"In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew."
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