Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.
MARIA CALLAS
To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
More Maria Callas Quotes
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Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.
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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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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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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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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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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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I don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.
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I don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.
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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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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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I will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel!
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I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
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When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.
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I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
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When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.
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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.
MARIA CALLAS