When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.
MARIA CALLASThat 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.
More Maria Callas Quotes
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I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
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I don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.
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Only my dogs will not betray me.
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I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
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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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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.
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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.
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To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
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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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I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not a devil, either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.
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I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
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I don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.
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First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I’ve lost Onassis.
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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.
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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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