I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
MARIA CALLASDon’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.
More Maria Callas Quotes
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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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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 I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.
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I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
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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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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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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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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 don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.
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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 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 will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel!
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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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