Quotes About Passion

I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that.

I decided I was going to be an opera star. I was about 12.

My degree was in opera.

People who have passion for horror stories, their appreciation/my appreciation is looking at it as opera.

For years, I wasn't in the least bit interested in opera.

I'm by no means an opera buff.

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

Out of nowhere, I became a fairly well-known director with a penchant for opera, which I did for 10 years. Then I realized I was taking myself out the theater channel, and so I re-focused on theater.

Opera - above and beyond anything else - is about the music, and it should be about the music.

To this day, I adore classical music, and I'm very interested in opera, which I found out later my father was also extremely fond of.

You don't have to make a grand, exaggerated sound to sing opera.

I sang opera for over four years when I was younger.

I'd always had this hankering to try some opera.

I'm an opera lover.

I adore opera and I truly believe it is one of the most beautiful art forms on Earth.

I loved writing 'Lost.' It was like a never-ending opera, in a way.

Opera is a key way of talking about life and all the things that are important to people in life.

I was an acting opera singer, and that's one of the reasons I left opera.

I never wanted to be an opera singer. I wanted to be an actress, maybe a rock singer.

I am rooted in flamenco. At 13, I fell in love with it, but I couldn't sing it. To sing flamenco is like being a kind of opera singer. You have to learn how.

If I cannot be the best or operate at the best highest level, then I need to go away.

I operate with an emotional fearlessness, and I really feel music; I really feel songs.

I admire people who operate from a place of love and who have gone through the rigorous process of finding and articulating their purpose, whatever it may be.

The way I operate is I want to win, so I'll do whatever.