Canto Quotes

#1. HELEN HAYES: "Which part of The Divine Comedy do you like the most, Tiziano?"
TIZIANO CONTI: "The fifth Canto."
HELEN HAYES: "The Hell, huh?"
TIZIANO CONTI: "L'inferno depicts the truth.

Merce Cardus

#2. - Who would carry the bell canto
- Of course Montserrat Caballe

Maria Callas

#3. I want to be known by people who are knowledgeable about opera, who appreciate bel canto singing, people who have more sensitivity.

Alfredo Kraus

#4. My voice is not so much 'bel canto' as 'can belto'.

Harry Secombe

#5. I saw two beings in the hues of the youth
Standing upon a hill, a gentle hill ... And both were young
and one was beautiful
-The Dream, Canto II
Lord Byron

Madeleine L'Engle

#6. Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.

Ned Rorem

#7. When you do a 'messa di voce,' that means you start soft, you crescendo into loud - and then you go back to soft again. Some people call it circus tricks, but in bel canto, it's really written into the music.

Sondra Radvanovsky

#8. There is no water to put out the fire. Mi canto la esperanza. - Carlos Santana "Maria Maria

Don Winslow

#9. Singing bel canto is like walking on a tightrope - especially with a larger voice like mine.

Sondra Radvanovsky

#10. I prefer it when the conductor follows me. It is more difficult to work with a conductor who does not listen - even if I understand that sometimes it makes sense when one person is ruling everything. But for bel canto, I have to have a conductor who listens and supports me.

Anna Netrebko

#11. I love to doubt as well as know."
~ Dante's Inferno, Canto XI, 93: "non men che saver, dubbiar m'aggrata.

Dante Alighieri

#12. My vocal style is called bel canto, which is an old Italian vocal style going back hundreds of years.

Sebastian Bach

#13. All human history attests
That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! -
Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner.
~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

George Gordon Byron

#14. Star canto: star speaks light, and world to world
Repeats the passage of the universe
To God; the name of Christ
the one great word
Well worth all languages in earth or heaven.

Philip James Bailey

#15. I began a poem in lines of one syllable. It's rather difficult, but the merit of all things lies in their difficulty. The subject matter is gallant. I'll read you the first canto; it's four hundred verses long and takes one minute.

Alexandre Dumas

#16. Mientras mas honda la herida,
Es mi canto mas hermoso.
While more deeper is the wound
The more beautiful the art.

Jose Marti

#17. CANTO I IN the midway of this our mortal life,

Dante Alighieri

#18. And of that second kingdom will I sing Wherein the human spirit doth purge itself, And to ascend to heaven becometh worthy. -Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto I.004-006.

Sylvain Reynard

#19. For me, bel canto is medicine for the voice.

Sondra Radvanovsky

#20. Heartmating hesitating unafraid

John Berryman

#21. Not foliage green, but of a fusk colour,
Not branches smooth, but gnarled and intertangled
not apple-tress were there, but thorns with poison.

Dante Alighieri

#22. I kind of stumbled into acting, even though I've always been fascinated by people and kind of their motives, and it's been amazing to me, everything I read before about psychology, philosophy, just to put it into practice somehow.

Adan Canto

#23. Music, in Mexico, just wasn't working out. So, I fell into acting and I just fell in love with it. It was amazing! It was a great safe place to just vent.

Adan Canto

#24. The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.

Dante Alighieri

#25. And there the stories
Of martyrs awed, as Spagnoletto tainted
His brush with all the blood of all the sainted.

George Gordon Byron

#26. I've always been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them.

Adan Canto

#27. The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.

Dante Alighieri

#28. They yearn for what they fear for.

Dante Alighieri

#29. I never said that I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid. I didn't know. I thought I was going to be a singer and musician. That's what I had been doing, for a huge part of my life.

Adan Canto

#30. I'm a runner. Not a race runner, but I just love to run, and I don't think I've ever tasted such amazing food like I've tasted in the whole entire New York.

Adan Canto

#31. There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair

Dante Alighieri

#32. In theater, you go in-depth with your character, so coming to the States, it was inevitable to dig into the pilots I liked. I knew what characters I was going to be reading for, so I would dissect them and really get involved with them.

Adan Canto

#33. Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity.

Dante Alighieri