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Letter "O" » opera
«Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.»
Author: C. Wright Mills
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«An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.»
«Critics complained it wasn't opera, it wasn't a musical. You give someone something delicious to eat and they complain because they have no name for it.»
«If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.»
«If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.»
«Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.»
Author: David Ogilvy
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«Bed is the poor man's opera»
«I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see it in those genitals»
«He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?»
«A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.»