Mark Getty Quotes

We all know this: Music is such a fundamental part of life.

What we play is life.

When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.

Theater is the most important thing in life for me.

Musicians are not so concerned with language.

As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed in any other way, or certainly not as beautifully.

Before there were any sort of 'recordings' there was performance. If we are devolved back to the Stone Age tomorrow, there will be performance.

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

You know, I think music is very interactive. It's a - it's a language.

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

What is certain is that singing is not merely modulating a song by means of the voice: we sing and we celebrate the beauty that we can grow and live every day. If you want to sing and give emotions to those who are listening, you must have something to tell through your singing; you have to use singing like an instrument to tell something.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

Music and opera are a big part of my life.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Singing is my life, and I have to do it, or I'm going to go totally bananas.

Music bears a great responsibility because it is so influential. Everybody listens to music. It is a very influential tool. To me, it is very important to the world... music is... to being... to life.

The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place to be.

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

I sing about life.

I can't imagine a world without music.

Making a movie to entertain people, that's just as important as telling people about our stories.