I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
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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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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First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I’ve lost Onassis.
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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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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.
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I will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel!
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I don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.
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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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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 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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Only when I was singing did I feel loved.
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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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The public is a monster and that is why I am not eager to return to the stage.
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When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.
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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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