"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."

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W. H. Auden

#Funny Quotes #Music Quotes #People Quotes

“Look," said Janet, irritated, "if the thing you liked best to do in the world was read, and somebody offered to pay you room and board and give you a liberal arts degree if you would just read for four years, wouldn't you do it?”

Source : Pamela Dean (2006). “Tam Lin”, p.17, Penguin
“Corporations, being only human, make mistakes. Sometimes you may end up working for one of those mistakes.”
“The lyrics to me are a result of the emotional and creative climate present while making the record as well as personally going through a sort of mid-twenties stock-taking.”
“I think, in my life, there've been three times I've broken down into tears on a set because I was happy.”

Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. August 2, 2011.
“From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's cultural influence is virtually limitless.”
“You just need an opportunity and then you yourself have to do a good job, and then you hope that people go, 'Oh yeah, I forgot about her.'”
“Evita' obviously would always be very special to me because it was the first major musical that I did on stage and created in the U.K. with Hal Prince directing.”
“If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to get to the good stuff, you need to slow down.”

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