Quotes About Expression

The thing that's carried over from my visual-art education into what I do musically is my openness.

Acting is my interest, but it opens up avenues.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

The thing is I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing. It's just a pretty cool thing.

I'm not a person who opens up to people, and I feel like music is my way of doing that.

Ballet opens up the chest and the arms and elongates the body, so you carry yourself straighter. That's so important for a model. But also every woman.

Comedy opens you up to ideas that a straight-up drama doesn't. You resist those messages when they come to you earnestly or dramatically.

It's amazing how a lot of the metal guys have never strummed! And it's not that challenging, but it really opens up a lot of doors in ways they might not have imagined.

I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.

Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song, I try to imagine to sing like in an ear of a child.

Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute.

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.

Opera is an exclusive art form, so it cannot be that popular. I just do what I love to do.

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself.

I don't know if I would write an opera, maybe because of the words. But yes, I would be really excited to do it. I would certainly write a ballet or... I've done a lot of stage before.

Opera is full of trappings that make us go away from being human. You can't let them do that. You can't walk like you're in an opera! You have to make it real. You have to just be there.

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

Music and opera are a big part of my life.

Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.

Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.

I find the opera part in 'The Greatest Show on Earth' challenging.

I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies.

Opera is really fun.