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When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

Maria Callas

My poor sight gives me an advantage. I can’t see the people in the audience who are scratching their heads while I am lost in my role and giving everything I have to the drama.
MARIA CALLAS

Advantage Drama Head Myself Poor Role
I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
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Achievement Best Difficult Myself Necessary
Real friends are very special, but you have to be careful because sometimes you have a friend and you think they are made of rock, then suddenly you realise they’re only made of sand.
MARIA CALLAS

Care Friendship Reality Yourself
Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.
MARIA CALLAS

Fashion Leadership World
I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
MARIA CALLAS

Change Music Myself Voice
To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
MARIA CALLAS

Expression Sing Transformation Yourself
Love is so much better when you are not married.
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Better Love Marriage Yourself
You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.
MARIA CALLAS

Artist Born Stay Voice Yourself
Some say I have a beautiful voice, some say I have not. It is a matter of opinion. All I can say, those who don’t like it shouldn’t come to hear me.
MARIA CALLAS

Beautiful Myself Opinion Voice
I don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.
MARIA CALLAS

Appearance Change Myself Possession
I don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.
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Art Money Myself Work
I will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel!
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Angel Children Myself Voice
I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven’t had much for myself. Music has enriched my life and, hopefully – through me, a little – the public’s. If anyone left an opera house feeling more happy and at peace, I achieved my purpose.
MARIA CALLAS

Achievement Feeling Generosity Happiness Home Hope Life Music Myself Purpose
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.
MARIA CALLAS

Beginning End Home Imagination Myself Start
I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
MARIA CALLAS

Marriage Myself Preparation
The public is a monster and that is why I am not eager to return to the stage.
MARIA CALLAS

Monster Myself Public Return

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

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When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

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