I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
MARIA CALLASThere 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.
More Maria Callas Quotes
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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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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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Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.
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What is there in life if you do not work? There is only sensation, and there are only a few sensations— you cannot live on them. You can only live on work, by work, through work. How can you live with self-respect if you do not do things as well as lies in you?
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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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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 prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
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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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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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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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When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping.
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Only my dogs will not betray 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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The public is a monster and that is why I am not eager to return to the stage.
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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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