Librettist Quotes

#1. I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist.

Jacques Ibert

#2. You have seven writers in your basement?"
Donald nods, signing, "They like it here. There's a poet, a couple of novelists, an opera librettist, an essay writer ... They don't usually make much trouble.

Susan Wiggs

#3. A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

Robertson Davies

#4. You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars

Timothy Leary

#5. In other words - and this is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxywide success is founded - their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws.

Douglas Adams

#6. I have a huge chip on my shoulder.

Eric Church

#7. Ever since I saw sexy Beast I've been trying to get the cockney thing down.

Chris Pine

#8. Why can't she see that no two people
are exactly alike? Our hearts and minds
are all different.
Only our dreams share
this same desperate need
to rise
and soar...

Margarita Engle

#9. When I have had enough of tears and love, I turn to some poet, and set out again for a new world.

Xavier De Maistre

#10. Some people said, 'Oh you're going to become a fine artist now and do exhibits and stuff.' But I have no desire to do that. I really like design and I'm going to stay with it.

Stefan Sagmeister

#11. Gymnastics demands so much of our time. We train all week and travel and compete on weekends. The people you're surrounded by really become your second family, your best friends, your sisters. My coach was like a second mother for me.

Amanda Borden

#12. Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.

James Madison