I don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.
MARIA CALLASI will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
More Maria Callas Quotes
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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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I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
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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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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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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.
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Don’t talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
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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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Only when I was singing did I feel loved.
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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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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 my dogs will not betray me.
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