It’s a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven’t.
MARIA CALLASI want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
More Maria Callas Quotes
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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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First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I’ve lost Onassis.
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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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To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
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I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
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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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On stage, I am in the dark.
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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 talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
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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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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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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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Love is so much better when you are not married.
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I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
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Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.
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