Quotes About Culture

Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.

Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

More people are listening to opera, and I'm happy - everybody must be given that opportunity.

What isn't for everybody shouldn't be for anybody: the world's opera houses are the reasons we have cardboard cities.

I've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD.

The opera in Los Angeles is excellent.

Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?

I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera.

When we go to the opera, we put the clothes on we know we must wear for there.

To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.

There was always dance in opera until people forgot to keep it going.

One of the things I love about opera is that it's the combination of all the art forms, and certainly the world of fashion is a big deal in it.

The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.

I used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to 'get' any music, no matter how distant the culture from which it came. And then I heard Chinese opera.

I'm by no means an opera buff.

When I was younger, I felt it essential to see every movie ever made. Now I feel as though I've got to read every book, see every art show, watch every play and opera and concert and so on. It does not end, and of course there is truth in the old cliche that the more one knows, the more one realizes one knows nothing at all.

I love opera. I love jazz, especially Mingus. This makes me sound highbrow. I'm not.

You went to your first Broadway play or musical at some point, right? Come to opera.

Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.

We tend to forget that in those days before the Internet and HBO and Imax and 3-D cinema, opera was the thing. Opera and theatre. If you were a man of the world and you mingled among the happy few, you would be at the opera.

Opera is too obsessed with buildings.

Opera needs a major makeover; the large opera houses are too in thrall to their conservative patrons.

I'm an opera lover.

Actually I do not listen to much opera music.