Quotes About Expression

I want to get out of the major opera houses.

I want to do rock operas.

I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn't want to continue opera because I wanted to act.

I'd like to direct more operas.

I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.

There was always dance in opera until people forgot to keep it going.

One of the things I love about opera is that it's the combination of all the art forms, and certainly the world of fashion is a big deal in it.

I love to conduct opera.

I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that.

I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.

I'm by no means an opera buff.

When I am on the opera stage, I am playing someone else. In recitals, I even have the chance to talk to the audience, which is something you don't get to do in opera.

I'm actually doing what I like doing, which is mixing opera music and classical music with soul and folk. And I was writing and talking about what I've actually experienced, and I don't think that's very common.

Opera - above and beyond anything else - is about the music, and it should be about the music.

One of the problems with musicals and opera is you can't ever hear all the words.

You don't have to make a grand, exaggerated sound to sing opera.

When we work on a new theatre piece, we improvise a lot. But it's the opposite in opera, where everything is fixed.

I'm an opera lover.

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

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

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 never wanted to be an opera singer. I wanted to be an actress, maybe a rock singer.

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 think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.