Quotes of: Opera-singer Keyword

I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general.

Ellie Goulding

I always know I'm a country singer, and regardless of where I've fallen into different places with my music, I know that, really, I'm a country singer.

Ronnie Milsap

My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.

Brandi Carlile

But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers.

Victoria de los Angeles

I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

Van Morrison

If I stop practising, I will be an average singer. There are a lot of singers I know who hardly practise, yet sing well.

Sonu Nigam

I used to want to be a singer and a musician for years, from 6 years old to today. I'm not really good, but in time I could be. I'm more of a singer than anything.

Tommy Davidson

My biggest celebrity crush is either Ryan Reynolds or Caleb Followill, the lead singer of Kings of Leon.

Hillary Scott

Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter', never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go.

Brian McKnight

I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.

Jamaica Kincaid

Spanish is the language of lovers, Italian is for the singer, French for diplomats, and German for horses.

Spanish

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

Renee Fleming

I want to get out of the major opera houses.

Renee Fleming

Dance stories, unlike those in opera, are usually simple.

Robert Gottlieb

Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.

Karen DeCrow

I became a set designer for opera.

Maurice Sendak

For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great opera.

David Rubenstein

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

Gian Carlo Menotti

When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.

Kevin Spacey

Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.

Bobby Short

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

Harrison Birtwistle