Opera - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://www.maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Give me a laundry-list and I'll set it to music. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44926<![CDATA[Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44927<![CDATA[I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44928<![CDATA[If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44929<![CDATA[Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44924<![CDATA[But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44925<![CDATA[Opera stars know that biology is destiny. Sometime in their 50s or early 60s, the powerful, flexible and ultimately mysterious ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44919<![CDATA[Opera: the graveyard of melody ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44920<![CDATA[Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44921<![CDATA[Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44922<![CDATA[Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44915<![CDATA[I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44916<![CDATA[Parsifal - the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been going three hours, you ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44917<![CDATA[Critics complained it wasn't opera, it wasn't a musical. You give someone something delicious to eat and they complain because ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44918<![CDATA[I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44912<![CDATA[An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44913<![CDATA[Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44914