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"In opera, there is always too much singing."
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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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"Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic."
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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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"Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out."
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"In opera, there is always too much singing."
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"Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera."
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"Many years ago I was in another soap opera called The Newcomers which was on twice a week for three years. I really don't think I could do another stint like that again."
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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 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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"In opera, there is always too much singing."
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"First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers."
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"Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law."
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"There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature."
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"Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes."
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"Music is the silence between the notes."
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"A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn."
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"Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light."
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"People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?"
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