Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.
MARIA CALLASThat 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.
More Maria Callas Quotes
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First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I’ve lost Onassis.
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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 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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I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
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When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.
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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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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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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 my dogs will not betray me.
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I will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel!
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I don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.
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Only when I was singing did I feel loved.
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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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On stage, I am in the dark.
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I don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.
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