Maria Callas Quotes

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• To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.

  Maria Callas

  Expression, Voice, Singing

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• When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.

  Maria Callas

  Speak, Curtains

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• I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.

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  Achieve, Difficult

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• Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.

  Maria Callas

  Dams, Talk To Me, Don't Talk To Me

  "Wild Women Talk Back : Audacious Advice for the Bedroom, Boardroom, and Beyond". Book by Autumn Stephens, p. 142, 2004.

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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

  Art, Thinking, Voice

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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.

  Maria Callas

  Giving, House, Feelings

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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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  Long, Imagination, House

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• Only when I was singing did I feel loved.

  Maria Callas

  Singing, Feels

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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.

  Maria Callas

  Artist, Voice, Fireworks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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  Angel, Artist, Devil

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

  Maria Callas

  Peace, Enemy, Criticism

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• I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

  Maria Callas

  Art, Needs, Dear God

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• Real friends are very special, but you have to be careful because sometimes you have a friend and you think they are made of rock, then suddenly you realise they're only made of sand.

  Maria Callas

  Real, Thinking, Rocks

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• What [Tulio Serafin] said that impressed me was: "When one wants to find a gesture, when you want to find how to act on stage, all you have to do is listen to the music. The composer has already seen to that." If you take the trouble to really listen with your soul and with your ears - and I say soul and ears because the mind must work, but not too much also - you will find every gesture there. And it is all true, you know.

  Maria Callas

  Soul, Mind, Ears

  "Maria Callas: The Callas Conversations" by Maria Callas. an Interview in Paris with Lord Harewood for the BBC (April 1968). EMI Classics DVD, 2004.

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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.

  Maria Callas

  Education, Teacher, Mean

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• Some say I have a beautiful voice, some say I have not. It is a matter of opinion. All I can say, those who don't like it shouldn't come to hear me.

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  Beautiful, Voice, Matter

  Interview with Norman Ross, November 17, 1957.

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• I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.

  Maria Callas

  Demand, Dignity, Callas

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• First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I've lost Onassis.

  Maria Callas

  Loss, Voice, Weight

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• I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.

  Maria Callas

  Stage, Opera Singers, Happens

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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?

  Maria Callas

  Lying, Self, Wells

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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.

  Maria Callas

  Enemy, Knees, I Can

  "Callas : The Art and the Life". Book by John Ardoin, 1974.

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• Only my dogs will not betray me.

  Maria Callas

  Friendship, Dog, My Dog

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• [During fee negotiations for singing in Vienna:] I'm not interested in money, but it must be more than anyone else gets.

  Maria Callas

  Singing, Vienna, Negotiation

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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.

  Maria Callas

  Music, Wisdom, Failure

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• Love is so much better when you are not married.

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  Love, Love Is, Married

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