Don’t talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
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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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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The public is a monster and that is why I am not eager to return to the stage.
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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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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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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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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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I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
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I will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel!
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Only when I was singing did I feel loved.
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When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.
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Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.
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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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