Libretto Quotes & Sayings

There's no such thing as security in this life sweetheart, and the sooner you accept that fact, the better off you'll be. The person who strives for security will never be free. The person who believes she's found security will never reach paradise. What she mistakes for security is purgatory. You know what purgatory is, Gwendolyn? It's the waiting room, it's the lobby. Not only does she have the wrong libretto, she's stuck in the lobby where she can't see the show. — Tom Robbins

Do your best. Live. Create. Fail. — N.D. Wilson

I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto. — Terry Teachout

The time we are living in is a significant time — Sunday Adelaja

I don't necessarily make much art myself, but after I wrote 'Warped Passages,' I was fortunate to get involved a little in the art world. I got invited to write a libretto for what we called a projective opera, and I also got invited to curate an art exhibit. — Lisa Randall

...if we aren't learning something from a new experience, it's usually because we aren't paying attention. Or we're following the wrong libretto. — Tom Robbins

Envy, slothful vice,
Never makes its way in lofty characters,
But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls
Close to the ground. — Ovid

Porgy is ... an interesting example of what can be done by talent in spite of a bad setup. With a libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen, a man who should never have attempted it has written a work that has a considerable power. — George Gershwin

So it became in my mind a nine-carol service; an oratorio and orchestral concert all in one, but with narration. That's something I've learned about, because it's the story that keeps you in there. I wrote a libretto and I gave it to John [Du Prez, Idle's co-writer of many years]. We normally don't work in this fashion but I said off you go, and he went off for about three months. He brought me back this demo which blew my mind. — Eric Idle

Silken strings composing the harpsichord of life accommodate a score of emotional tidings. An orchestra of linked heartbeats strumming the melodious prose of our collective intones gives rise to sonnets of melancholy, producing an illimitable libretto stretching from the milky dawn of newborn's amaranth life to the speckled sunsets of gentle souls whom we cherish. — Kilroy J. Oldster

A libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen bya man who should never have attempted it. — Virgil Thomson

In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing. — Victor Hugo

Our life is not given to us like an opera libretto, in which all is written down; but it means going, walking, doing, searching, seeing ... We must enter into the adventure of the quest for meeting God; we must let God search and encounter us. — Pope Francis

The emotion is the music and the script is the libretto. — Gregory Peck

Busy yourselves with this, you damned walruses, while the rest of use proceed with the libretto. — John Barrymore

If you would dance, my pretty Count, I'll play the tune on my little guitar.. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. — Eckhart Tolle

Don't let the evil actions of broken people define your view of our world! Don't be terrorized into a diluted, hopeless reality. — Steve Maraboli