Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.

Raving mad is quite easy. You just chew up the scenery or something. It's quiet mad that's hard.

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

The secret of living is to find people who will pay you money to do what YOU would pay to do if you had the money.

Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.