Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
John Philip Sousa

I cannot go to the Opera, because I have forsworn all expense which does not end in pleasing me.
Charles Townshend

I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.
Fred Saberhagen

I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.
Rick Moranis

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Edward Appleton

I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.
Bruce Beresford

I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy.
Bernard Haitink

I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.
Sam Waterston

I had a soap opera, and my next job was working with Kyle McLachlan on The Invisible Man.
Elisabeth Rohm

I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers.
Jo Stafford

I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler.
Jeremy Bulloch

I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.
Franco Zeffirelli

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.
Joan Collins

I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.
Parker Posey

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.
Anthony Davis

I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
Kate O'Brien

I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time.
Lesley Garrett

I really wanted to be an opera soprano.
Maureen O'Hara

I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read.
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.
Tom Wopat