Don’t talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
MARIA CALLASOnly my dogs will not betray me.
More Maria Callas Quotes
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I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
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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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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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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 prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
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I don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.
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Only my dogs will not betray me.
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First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I’ve lost Onassis.
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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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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 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 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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When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping.
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