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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."
"This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it."
"The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge."
"The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles."
"I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy."
"Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out."
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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."
"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."
"Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin."
"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."
"I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime."
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