I don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.
MARIA CALLASI don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.
More Maria Callas Quotes
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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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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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I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
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Don’t talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
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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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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 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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Love is so much better when you are not married.
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To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
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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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When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.
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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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First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I’ve lost Onassis.
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Only my dogs will not betray me.
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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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