ART is domination. It’s making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours.
MARIA CALLASYou 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.
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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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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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 need the money, dear. I work for art.
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To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
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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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Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.
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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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Don’t talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
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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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When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping.
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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.
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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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I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
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Love is so much better when you are not married.
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I don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.
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What is there in life if you do not work? There is only sensation, and there are only a few sensations— you cannot live on them. You can only live on work, by work, through work. How can you live with self-respect if you do not do things as well as lies in you?
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On stage, I am in the dark.
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Only my dogs will not betray me.
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Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.
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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.
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Only when I was singing did I feel loved.
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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.
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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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