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When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping.

Maria Callas

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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Failure Heart Missing Music Point
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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Live Money Trouble Window Work Yourself
To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
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Expression Sing Transformation Yourself
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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Achievement Feeling Generosity Happiness Home Hope Life Music Myself Purpose
The public is a monster and that is why I am not eager to return to the stage.
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Monster Myself Public Return
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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Angel Artist Judgement Myself Oneself Pretend Role Serious Woman
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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Art Domination Moments Oneself People Thinking Voice
What is there in life if you do not work? There is only sensation, and there are only a few sensations— you cannot live on them. You can only live on work, by work, through work. How can you live with self-respect if you do not do things as well as lies in you?
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Life Live Respect Sensation Work Yourself
I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
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Artist Different Kind Maturity Myself Thinking
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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Age Day Enjoyment Fools Friendship Happiness Live Maturity Myself Young
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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Difference End Goodness Greatness Student Teacher
Only when I was singing did I feel loved.
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Feeling Love Myself Sing
Love is so much better when you are not married.
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Better Love Marriage Yourself
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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Advantage Drama Head Myself Poor Role
Don’t talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
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Attitude Myself Rule Stay Talk
I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
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Marriage Myself Preparation

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping.

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