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.
MARIA CALLASMy 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.
More Maria Callas Quotes
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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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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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I will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel!
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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 am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not a devil, either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.
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I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
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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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I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
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To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
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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 don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.
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When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping.
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When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.
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