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.
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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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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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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When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.
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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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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 want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
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Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.
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I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
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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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I don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.
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Love is so much better when you are not married.
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I don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.
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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.
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Only when I was singing did I feel loved.
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Don’t talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
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