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 CALLASAn 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.
More Maria Callas Quotes
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ART is domination. It’s making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours.
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That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil’s means; great teachers foresee a pupil’s ends.
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It’s a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven’t.
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Only my dogs will not betray me.
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There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.
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Only when I was singing did I feel loved.
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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.
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I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
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I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
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I will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel!
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When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.
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When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping.
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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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Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.
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On stage, I am in the dark.
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