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.
MARIA CALLASI cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
More Maria Callas Quotes
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I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
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I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
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It’s a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven’t.
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I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
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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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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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Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.
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I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
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I don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.
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Love is so much better when you are not married.
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I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven’t had much for myself. Music has enriched my life and, hopefully – through me, a little – the public’s. If anyone left an opera house feeling more happy and at peace, I achieved my purpose.
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Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.
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Only my dogs will not betray me.
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Don’t talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
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