When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping.
MARIA CALLASI would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must.
More Maria Callas Quotes
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Love is so much better when you are not married.
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I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must.
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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 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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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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On stage, I am in the dark.
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To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
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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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I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
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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 when I was singing did I feel loved.
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Only my dogs will not betray me.
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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 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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I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
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