Quotes About Music

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

I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.

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

If you think that there are actually covers that we haven't done on 'Glee' that I could then put on an album... We've done everything! Pretty soon we're just going to have to start doing opera and stuff on the show.

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

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.

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.

Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera.

I love to conduct opera.

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

I like folk songs, but ten horses couldn't bring me to a concert or an opera.

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

My degree was in 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.

I'm actually doing what I like doing, which is mixing opera music and classical music with soul and folk. And I was writing and talking about what I've actually experienced, and I don't think that's very common.

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

I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical.

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.

I wrote my own pop songs and sang one of them when I went into a stupid beauty competition when I was 16. That was my public debut, and it made my mother even more determined that I should go into opera!

I love 'Threepenny Opera'; I was exposed to it as a little kid because my parents, my mom and my dad, had bonded, when they were dating, over 'Threepenny Opera' and introduced it to me, a child, who could barely understand it. But I immediately gravitated even from that early age.

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