Only my dogs will not betray me.
MARIA CALLASI prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
More Maria Callas Quotes
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I don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.
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Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.
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When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.
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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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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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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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Don’t talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
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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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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 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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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 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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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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Love is so much better when you are not married.
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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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