131 Quotes About Opera

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Love is a rebellious bird, that nobody can tame, and you call him quite in vain, if it suits him not to come.

To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.

None of us can choose where we shall love...

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.

People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.

You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!

You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.

The money in the chorus isn’t very good, is it?!” she said.“No.” It was less than you’d get for scrubbing floors. The reason was that, when you advertised a dirty floor, hundreds of hopefuls didn’t turn up.