Quotes About Art

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.

Opera is too obsessed with buildings.

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

If you decide to work with the opera world, chances are there are going to be people who resist that.

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

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 I got hit by a bus tomorrow, you'd get people going: 'Oh, we should make 'Mother' into an opera, it's what he would have wanted.'

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

Writing opera off as intrinsically elitist is absurd.

It is different in Russia. Here there is a television channel devoted to opera and dance.

Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert hall or even for TV.

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

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.

I'll be honest: 'Badlands' changed my life: it really did rewire my brain as to how film can operate.

In order to make a film, you have to operate on many different levels, making all these different forms of expression converse, and so I just followed that intuition.

I think all creative people are operating from the fear that, of the best of what they did, will anybody remember it? Will anybody tell stories about them? Will anybody keep those pictures on the mantle long after they are gone? It's why people write stories. It's peoples' grave markers.

If I have a certain opinion, I try to incorporate that into my work.

You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous. In my opinion it's ridiculous, how closely one can just rip-off a score that happened a year or two earlier.

If you ask my opinion, I don't look at a film according to its box office collection.

In my opinion, an album has a story from start to finish and has a concrete concept.