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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

When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.
MARIA CALLAS

Courage Inspirational Rise Talk
Don’t come to me with your troubles. I have to work for my money and you are young enough to work too. If you can’t make enough money to live on you can jump out of the window or drown yourself.
MARIA CALLAS

Live Money Trouble Window Work Yourself
When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping.
MARIA CALLAS

Enemy Myself Stop
Don’t talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
MARIA CALLAS

Attitude Myself Rule Stay Talk
I don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.
MARIA CALLAS

Appearance Change Myself Possession
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
Love is so much better when you are not married.
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Better Love Marriage Yourself
Only when I was singing did I feel loved.
MARIA CALLAS

Feeling Love Myself Sing
I was always too mature for my age – and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.
MARIA CALLAS

Age Day Enjoyment Fools Friendship Happiness Live Maturity Myself Young
ART is domination. It’s making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours.
MARIA CALLAS

Art Domination Moments Oneself People Thinking Voice
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 don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.
MARIA CALLAS

Art Money Myself Work
First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I’ve lost Onassis.
MARIA CALLAS

Appearance Loss Lost Myself Voice Weight
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
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
On stage, I am in the dark.
MARIA CALLAS

Darkness Myself

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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