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I'm Opera Singer. I can sing Brecht, Weil. -- Nina Hagen
I think my great-grandpa was an opera singer or something. -- Jennifer Damiano
I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though. -- Emmy Rossum
Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint. -- Tony Curtis
Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me. -- Luciano Pavarotti
To be a famously successful opera singer. I wanted that since I was eight. -- Danielle de Niese
My family was very musical. My brother is an opera singer; my parents both sang. -- Blythe Danner
When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - it's beyond belief. -- Eve Best
My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters how to sing. -- Tika Sumpter
I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being an opera singer. -- Lesley Manville
I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era. -- Andy Grove
Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life. -- Aleksa Palladino
My sister is an opera singer. I grew up going to her recitals. This whole time, I'm like, 'She's the singer. I'm just strumming along and yelling.' -- Benjamin Booker
I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that. -- Renee Fleming
My mom worked as a pharmacist, but she is one of the best storytellers I know. My sister is a gospel and opera singer and my brother, who passed away, was a writer. -- Tunde Adebimpe
The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands. -- Maria Jeritza
My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path. -- Tony Hale
Whether you're an opera singer, a legislator or customer service operator, there is a way that we can find common ground with our audience - be they young or old, Democrats or Republicans, rich or poor, religious or secular. -- Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
I originally wanted to be an opera singer. I studied classical voice at the University of Washington but soon realised I didn't have the instrument or the discipline. The road for opera singers is more difficult than for actors. -- Kyle MacLachlan
An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest possible level, you need to refrain from activities so as to be able to express this power. -- Andrea Bocelli
My mother was an opera singer and my grandmother a concert pianist, and they only liked classical music. If I put on a pop record, they would tell me to turn it off, so I only listen to classical. -- Amanda Eliasch
A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hear the wit of the words. And a cabaret song gives the singer room to act, more even than an opera singer. -- James Fenton
It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that. -- Diane Kruger
My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma was an opera singer. As I grew up, I discovered pop music and Top 40 radio, but it was in the '90s, so music was very different then - it was really lyrical. -- Skylar Grey
But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer. -- Adam Johnson
I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time. -- J. D. Souther
I have never called myself an opera singer. Other people do, but I always call myself a classical singer. I'd love to do opera, but I'm still too young and I don't want to do it until I'm ready. I realise that when I do that it's going to be... up for discussion, shall we say, so I want to get it right. -- Katherine Jenkins
It's in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I'm clearly dramatic. -- Mariah Carey
The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete. -- Andrea Bocelli
I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer. -- Melinda Clarke
I don't have a rock voice. I have to force it. I am like an opera singer. -- Meat Loaf
Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice. -- Beverly Sills
When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer... The people I loved were a little different. -- FKA twigs
When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - its beyond belief. -- Eve Best
A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full! -- Gaston Leroux
In a way, being an opera singer is like being a very romantic sixteen-year-old who falls in love with great passion and conviction every month. -- Renee Fleming
I never socialized with singers. It's very dangerous if you work with opera... I don't think that in 30 years a singer has entered my apartment. -- Rudolf Bing
If I were an opera singer, I"d have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your portrait. But cooking is what I'm best at. -- Lisa Kleypas
My grandma was actually a pretty well-known opera singer in Cuba, and then my mom was a ballerina. Two of my three sisters are dancers, so we grew up in the arts. -- Frankie J. Alvarez
My mom worked as a pharmacist, but she is one of the best storytellers I know. My sister is a gospel and opera singer and my brother, who passed away, was a writer." -- Tunde Adebimpe
When you decide to become an opera singer, it's a commitment that allows nothing else to interfere. Even your family - and I have a young daughter - has to take second place. -- Lucy Lawless
You could live without the opera singer, but not without the services of the baker. On this ground you might say that the baker performs a greater service; but no lover of music would agree. -- Bertrand Russell

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