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“Love is a rebellious bird,
that nobody can tame,
and you call him quite in vain,
if it suits him not to come.”
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that nobody can tame,
and you call him quite in vain,
if it suits him not to come.”
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“Floating, falling, sweet intoxication. Touch me, trust me, savor each sensation. Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in to the power of the music of the night.”
― The Phantom of the Opera: Piano/Vocal
― The Phantom of the Opera: Piano/Vocal
“They played at hearts as other children might play at ball; only, as it was really their two hearts that they flung to and fro, they had to be very, very handy to catch them, each time, without hurting them.”
― The Phantom of the Opera
― The Phantom of the Opera
“Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and off the stage. Murders, mayhem, politcal intrigue, lucrative business, secret assignations, and of course, dinner.”
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.
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“Well, basically there are two sorts of opera," said Nanny, who also had the true witch's ability to be confidently expert on the basis of no experience whatsoever. "There's your heavy opera, where basically people sing foreign and it goes like "Oh oh oh, I am dyin', oh I am dyin', oh oh oh, that's what I'm doin'", and there's your light opera, where they sing in foreign and it basically goes "Beer! Beer! Beer! Beer! I like to drink lots of beer!", although sometimes they drink champagne instead. That's basically all of opera, reely.”
― Maskerade
― Maskerade
“My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination and reaches ever outward to embrace infinity. There is no knowledge beyond my comprehension, no art or skill upon this entire planet that lies beyond the mastery of my hand. And yet, like Faust, I look in vain, I learn in vain. . . . For as long as I live, no woman will ever look on me in love.”
― Phantom
― Phantom
“The Departure Aria, a very important and romantic song -
This damn door sticks,
This damn door sticks
It sticks no matter what I do.
It is marked 'pull' and indeed I am pulling
Perhaps it should be marked 'push'?”
― Maskerade
This damn door sticks,
This damn door sticks
It sticks no matter what I do.
It is marked 'pull' and indeed I am pulling
Perhaps it should be marked 'push'?”
― Maskerade
“Dedication: My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine. I can best repay their kindness by not mentioning their names here.”
― Maskerade
― Maskerade
“I can see Richard Wagner standing at the gates of heaven. "You have to let me in," he says. "I wrote Parsifal. It has to do with the Grail, Christ, suffering, pity and healing. Right?" And they answer, "Well, we read it and it makes no sense." SLAM.”
― VALIS
― VALIS
“You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.”
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“(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?”
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“Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.”
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“Without a doubt it was Dr. Urbino's most contagious initiative, for opera fever infected the most surprising elements in the city and gave rise to a whole generation of Isoldes and Otellos and Aidas and Siegfrieds. But it never reached the extremes Dr. Urbino had hoped for, which was to see Italianizers and Wagnerians confronting each other with sticks and canes during the intermissions.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“I want you to take off the mask, Erik, do you hear me? I want you to take it off right now.
-Luciana”
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-Luciana”
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“That´s the problem with planning a late night supper after the opera, not only does the hero or the heroine die singing, but you end up famished after the last notes of the finale.”
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!”
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“Infatuation nurtured by imagination enflamed by a portrait turns into love at first sight in Saint-Réal's nouvelle as it will in Schiller's play and Verdi's opera.”
― The Don Carlos Enigma: Variations Of Historical Fictions
― The Don Carlos Enigma: Variations Of Historical Fictions
“Such immediate sliding into fiction under the guise of history reveals a remarkable fluidity between history and fiction that, while pertinent to innumerable portrayals of historical personages of other eras and nationalities, seems to acquire a particularly transformational narrative power in the case of Don Carlos.”
― The Don Carlos Enigma: Variations Of Historical Fictions
― The Don Carlos Enigma: Variations Of Historical Fictions
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