(274 quotes found)
“There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.”
Josh Groban
“One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time”
Gioacchino Rossini
“If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.”
Judy Garland
“The taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts such as opera. As a taxpayer, I am forced to admit that I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera.”
Dave Barry
“Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.”
Robert Burns
“I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see it in those genitals”
Jack Handy
“He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?”
Oscar Wilde
“Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.”
Marcel Marceau
“When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance”
Victor Borge
“An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.”
Maria Callas
