First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I’ve lost Onassis.
MARIA CALLASWhat 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?
More Maria Callas Quotes
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Don’t talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
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I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
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When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.
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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.
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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 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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I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
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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 would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must.
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On stage, I am in the dark.
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When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping.
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To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
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I don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.
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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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Love is so much better when you are not married.
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