Famous quotes containing the words state, opera and/or orchestra:
“For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.”
—Bible: New Testament Philippians 4:11.
“To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.”
—Billie Burke (1885–1970)
“As the artist
extends his world with
one gratuitous flourish—a stroke of white or
a run on the clarinet above the
bass tones of the orchestra ...”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)