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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.

Maria Callas

First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I’ve lost Onassis.
MARIA CALLAS

Appearance Loss Lost Myself Voice Weight
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.
MARIA CALLAS

Age Day Enjoyment Fools Friendship Happiness Live Maturity Myself Young
To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
MARIA CALLAS

Expression Sing Transformation Yourself
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.
MARIA CALLAS

Difference End Goodness Greatness Student Teacher
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.
MARIA CALLAS

Artist Born Stay Voice Yourself
I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
MARIA CALLAS

Achievement Best Difficult Myself Necessary
I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
MARIA CALLAS

Change Music Myself Voice
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.
MARIA CALLAS

Care Friendship Reality Yourself
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 CALLAS

Children Force Law Performance Responsibility
Love is so much better when you are not married.
MARIA CALLAS

Better Love Marriage Yourself
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.
MARIA CALLAS

Live Money Trouble Window Work Yourself
Don’t talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
MARIA CALLAS

Attitude Myself Rule Stay Talk
When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping.
MARIA CALLAS

Enemy Myself Stop
When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.
MARIA CALLAS

Enemy Myself Understand
ART is domination. It’s making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours.
MARIA CALLAS

Art Domination Moments Oneself People Thinking Voice
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.
MARIA CALLAS

Angel Artist Judgement Myself Oneself Pretend Role Serious Woman

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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