"When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging."

-- Placido Domingo

#Eye Quotes #Ballet Quotes #Opera Quotes

“For Godâ€™s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.”
“All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.”
“I'm looking more like my dogs every day - it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears.”
“Sometimes when a man gets older he has a revelation and wants awfully bad to get back to the place where he left his life, but he can't get to that place- not often.”

Source : Jane Auer Bowles (1978). “My sister's hand in mine: an expanded edition of the collected works of Jane Bowles”, Ecco Pr
“[When thinking about the new relativity and quantum theories] I have felt a homesickness for the paths of physical science where there are ore or less discernible handrails to keep us from the worst morasses of foolishness.”
“Flying used to be so great but now it's more of a trial.”
“Mike Watt and I had the same teacher. Mr. Tanaka.”
“The dandy should aspire to be uninterruptedly sublime. He should live and sleep in front of a mirror.”

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