I don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.
MARIA CALLASYou 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.
More Maria Callas Quotes
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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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Love is so much better when you are not married.
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On stage, I am in the dark.
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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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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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To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
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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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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 would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must.
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I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
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Only my dogs will not betray me.
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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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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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