Quotes About Music

Opera is too obsessed with buildings.

I've never felt opera was a party I've been invited to, and maybe I've got a bit of a chip on my shoulder about it.

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.

Actually I do not listen to much opera music.

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

If you are going to take me a to a musical, you'd better give me three songs that I'm gonna like. Nobody goes to the opera for the recitative. They go for the aria.

My greatest influence came from my parents' love of classical music. We listened to a lot of arias and operas growing up.

You can't get down and dirty at the opera.

Writing opera off as intrinsically elitist is absurd.

In the early '80s when I came to London, I didn't like opera. I didn't know anything about it.

I like Strauss's operas because it's all women's voices; I like opera that's hysterical.

I think my great-grandpa was an opera singer or something.

I know I'm an opera singer, but we're actors, too.

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.

My family was very musical. My brother is an opera singer; my parents both sang.

I began by listening to my mother's collection of Amelita Galli-Curci and Lily Pons records, and then was taken (at age eight) to hear Pons at a Met performance of Lakme. It was at that moment that I decided to become an opera star. Not just an opera singer, but an opera star!

My mom was an opera singer. She did all the classical music, and I heard it. I know every opera. I know every classical piece of music.

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.

We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.

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

I grew up on the side of the stage. I never had a fear of an audience. I never felt like they were separated from us. We were all in the living room, and it happens to be a big living room. I continue to operate on that assumption.