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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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"If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role."
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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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"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 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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"Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama."
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"I really wanted to be an opera soprano."
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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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"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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"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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"Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do."
God
"Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears."
Quality
"A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance."
Ignorance
"Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding."
Art
"Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out."
Opera
"Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed."
Life
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