When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping.
MARIA CALLASART is domination. It’s making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours.
More Maria Callas Quotes
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I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
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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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Love is so much better when you are not married.
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I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
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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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Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.
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My poor sight gives me an advantage. I can’t see the people in the audience who are scratching their heads while I am lost in my role and giving everything I have to the drama.
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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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When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.
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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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On stage, I am in the dark.
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Only when I was singing did I feel loved.
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I don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.
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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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