Quotes About Passion

Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute.

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.

Opera is an exclusive art form, so it cannot be that popular. I just do what I love to do.

I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

College football, acting, opera singing - I approached them all in the same obsessive way.

I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself.

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

Music and opera are a big part of my life.

Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.

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

In my iPod, there are many operas, from A to Z. I have 'Aida' and 'Boheme' and 'Butterfly' and 'Cavalleria'. My passion is for opera, but when I'm in the car, I listen to everything.

I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies.

My real passion is for opera. It was born and developed by listening to records, and my dream as a child was to record entire operas when I grew up, and this dream came true.

I was attracted to opera when I was 15 or 16. A very rich man in England bankrupted himself to put on a lot of opera during the war, but he converted a lot of people, myself included, in the process.

I love grand opera. I can't hear 'La Boheme' without dissolving.

Opera is really fun.

I want to do rock operas.

I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn't want to continue opera because I wanted to act.

I'd like to direct more operas.

I had a year at 3 when I wanted to be a conductor in the opera.

I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for it.

I'm involved with a baroque opera company here in Italy. I write some of their booklet material, comments on operas. I also write for some baroque opera festivals because this music is my real passion.

I love to conduct opera.