Only when I was singing did I feel loved.
MARIA CALLASI don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.
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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I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
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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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I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
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When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping.
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Don’t talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
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Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.
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To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
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I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
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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 don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.
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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 I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.
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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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On stage, I am in the dark.
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