Julian Barnes Quote

(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?

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

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Poetry, Shakespeare and opera, are like mumps and should be caught when young. In the unhappy event that there is a postponement to mature years, the results may be devastating.

You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!

You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

What sort of person, said Salzella patiently, sits down and writes a maniacal laugh? And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head. Ope...

I like your opera - I think I will set it to music

Off this fucking predictable soap opera, this will happen now, then that, then that and you say that you are christian and you start watching series of Turkey people which believe in a very different...