Recitative In Opera Quotes & Sayings

I just can really adapt to any kind of environment. — Stacy Keibler

I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it. — Mae Jemison

I think the nature of songwriters is that they are philosophers, and philosophers have a bent towards poetry and songwriting, so I think that the two run around together. The nature of a songwriter could be philosophical. Looking for universal ideas, a way to say things, get the story across as a means of entertaining, provoking thought. — Tom T. Hall

Boswell, when he speaks of his Life of Johnson, calls it my magnum opus, but it may more properly be called his opera, for it is truly a composition founded on a true story, in which there is a hero with a number of subordinate characters, and an alternate succession of recitative and airs of various tone and effect, all however in delightful animation. — James Boswell

When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read. — Jay Asher

You believe in a god that plays dice; I believe in law & order. — Albert Einstein

I've gotta keep life and computers separate, or else I'm gonna go mad. — Tracy Kidder

With a lot of what we take to be true feelings, especially on pop records, we feel them because they're cleverly crafted. And because the words are written by somebody who knows how to craft words and draw on those things and convey those feelings. That doesn't mean they're dishonest. But it also doesn't mean that it's all just pure primitive emotion spilling out. — David Byrne