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Lots of opera singers are just boring. -- Anna Netrebko
Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music. -- Renee Fleming
My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers. -- Sandra Bullock
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
(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them? -- Victor Borge
I studied with Stella Adler and I didn't like the representational aspect of most opera singers. Most of the opera singers had not a false, but over theatrical way of presenting. -- Robert Davi
I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers. -- Jo Stafford
I'm very musically inclined. My parents were opera singers. As a young child, I could hear operas and I knew if they were sad, or if they reminded me of something, or they brought back a memory. -- Sandra Bullock
It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it. -- Johnny Mathis
The very beautiful and very touching thing about opera singers is they are very willing to do whatever you want. Unlike actors, who constantly want to know why they're doing something, opera singers will sort of follow you into the fires of hell. -- Simon McBurney
I looked at the job of piano accompanist. It's a selfless position and generally they are odd people, according to opera singers I talked to. Just like everybody else, they want more from their life, but now their job is to make others shine. -- Simon Helberg
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
Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work. -- Ildar Abdrazakov
To be a famously successful opera singer. I wanted that since I was eight. -- Danielle de Niese
Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me. -- Luciano Pavarotti
Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint. -- Tony Curtis
I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer. -- Melinda Clarke
The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete. -- Andrea Bocelli
My family was very musical. My brother is an opera singer; my parents both sang. -- Blythe Danner
I saw a lot of operas from backstage and watched a lot of rehearsals - my parents were singers. -- Rosamund Pike
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
The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers. I am honoured for being part of their group. -- Andrea Bocelli
I think every singer should be able to jump in for a singer who has been sick, for instance, and learn an opera in two days. I know people who can do it. -- Bryn Terfel
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
In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best, doing something, they boo. Especially now that they pay hundreds of dollars for the ticket. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
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
How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers. -- Gioachino Rossini
When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging. -- Placido Domingo
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

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