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"If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role."
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"A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on."
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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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"This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it."
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"Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera."
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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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"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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"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."
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"Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic."
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"A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator."
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"I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die."
Sense
"We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality."
Death
"How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child."
Illusion
"I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor."
Money
"In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people."
Love
"It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold."
Loneliness
"You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people."
People
"I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them."
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"If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role."
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"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."
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