I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
MARIA CALLASOn stage, I am in the dark.
More Maria Callas Quotes
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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 will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel!
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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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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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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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When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping.
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Don’t talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
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Only my dogs will not betray me.
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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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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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To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
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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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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 the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.
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