And who shall say—whatever disenchantment follows—that we ever forget magic, or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple tree, the singing, and the gold?
—Thomas Wolfe
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back, and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
—Robert Benchley
I am all for singing. If I had had children, I should have hounded them into choirs and choral societies, and if they weren't good enough for that, I would have sent them out, to sing in the streets.
—Sylvia Townsend Warner
The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
—Fred Allen
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
—Ed Gardner
My heart is like a singing bird.
—Christina Rossetti
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
—W. H. Auden