First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I’ve lost Onassis.
MARIA CALLASParis dictates fashion to the whole world.
More Maria Callas Quotes
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I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
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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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I will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel!
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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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To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
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When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping.
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I don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.
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Don’t talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
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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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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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Only my dogs will not betray me.
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When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.
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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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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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Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.
MARIA CALLAS