Edward Appleton Quotes

Although I don't understand Russian, I like the sound.

I have no desire to become a crossover artiste, singing with microphones. I believe in opera; that it is something that young people would love if they had a chance to hear it.

Sometimes people have a difficult time understanding my English.

When you visit a foreign city you are in it, but not of it, separated by a glass wall. Once, while a student, I was getting dressed in my ground-floor room when a family of Italians crossed the grass to watch, as if I were laid on for their amusement and instruction.

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

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

At least when it's in French, I won't know what the heck they're saying.

I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for it.

My father's an opera nut, and my stepmother used to work at the Metropolitan Opera, so I had a lot of opera immersion. I like the grandness and pretention of it.

Audiences want to watch good films, even if it is dubbed in another language.

Opera - above and beyond anything else - is about the music, and it should be about the music.

If you are going to take me a to a musical, you'd better give me three songs that I'm gonna like. Nobody goes to the opera for the recitative. They go for the aria.

When I got into college, I got into operatic vocalists, like Leontyne Price.

When I was young and didn't know any English, I was drawn by the energy and power of foreign songs and their melodies.

I have sung in all languages, and so every people know me - Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu.

You travel the world, you go see different things. I like to see Shakespeare plays, so I'll go - I mean, even if it's in a different language. I don't care, I just like Shakespeare, you know. I've seen Othello and Hamlet and Merchant of Venice over the years, and some versions are better than others. Way better. It's like hearing a bad version of a song. But then somewhere else, somebody has a great version.

An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand.

Musicians are not so concerned with language.

Having translated two plays by Chekhov, and not speaking Russian myself - I cannot say one sentence. This may shock people... However, I am not shocked, as it is not hard to find out what the words mean.

I always had wished somebody else would sing my songs, but there wasn't anybody who knew them, so I sang them myself and eventually became a better singer and guitar player.

The emotion is the music and the script is the libretto.

Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

Even if you don't understand the language, you can still love the music.

Stick." I said in Russian. I had no clue what the word for stake was. I pointed at the silver ring I wore and made a slashing motion. "Stick. where?" He stared at me in utter confusion and then asked in perfect English, "why are you talking like that?