"My dream is to be played everywhere, not only at the Opera."

-- Erik Satie

#Dream Quotes #Opera Quotes

“I like coming up with these spectacular extravaganzas that will, hopefully, totally blow people away. But I also like the intimacy of stopping it all and sitting at the edge of the stage and connecting with individual people in the audience.”
“Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.”
“If you pass something every day and it has a little character, it begins to intrigue you.”

Source : "Surfaces and depths" by John O'Mahony, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2001.
“How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends! Life with immortality, splendor with righteous, truth with confidence, faith with assurance, self-control with holiness! And all these things are within our comprehension.”
“I disagree with the widely held view that it is metaphysical necessity, not nomological, that matters in the mind/body problem.”
“I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.”
“You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.”
“I think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things that I just couldnt reconcile.”

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