Peter Boyle Quotes

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

I've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD.

In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.

For years, I wasn't in the least bit interested in opera.

Sometimes, going to see one opera is hard because you don't know the genre. Good opera is like good wine. There are so many varieties, and it helps to inform you about what you like when you see a lot.

I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.

In my iPod, there are many operas, from A to Z. I have 'Aida' and 'Boheme' and 'Butterfly' and 'Cavalleria'. My passion is for opera, but when I'm in the car, I listen to everything.

I love grand opera. I can't hear 'La Boheme' without dissolving.

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

I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.

The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.

Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.

Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.

In opera, there is always too much singing.

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

I'd love to do 'Werther.' It's a great opera, and the music's so beautiful.

I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.

When I was 11 years old, I wanted to sing Tosca.

Growing up, my dad took me to the opera.

I think comics has this rap of being misogynistic, and that's certainly not untrue.

OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.

Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.

I tend to sing opera and showtunes in the shower. I don't know why, but when I get in the shower I turn into this big fat opera lady.