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Maria Callas
American
Musician
About the author
It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.
Maria Callas,
American
Musician
#Life
#Thinking
Love is so much better when you're not married.
Maria Callas,
American
Musician
#Love
On stage, I am in the dark.
Maria Callas,
American
Musician
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,
American
Musician
#Teachers
#Difference
There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.
Maria Callas,
American
Musician
#Children
#Law
#Responsibility
#Age
#Childhood
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,
American
Musician
#Heart
#Music
#Senses
When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.
Maria Callas,
American
Musician
#Enemies
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.
Maria Callas,
American
Musician
#Being
#Women
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,
American
Musician
#Voice
#Artist
Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
Maria Callas,
American
Musician
#Teachers
I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.
Maria Callas,
American
Musician
#Dignity
If I have stepped on some people at times because I am at the top, it couldn't be helped. What should I do if someone gets hurt... retire?
Maria Callas,
American
Musician
#People
#Hurt
Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
Maria Callas,
American
Musician
#Talk
#Rules
I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must.
Maria Callas,
American
Musician
#Will
#Enemies
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 Callas,
American
Musician
#Life
#Imagination
#Opera
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.
Maria Callas,
American
Musician
#Play
#Friends
#Age
#Girls
#Fool
I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
Maria Callas,
American
Musician
#Marriage
I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.
Maria Callas,
American
Musician
#Work
#Art
#Money
I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.
Maria Callas,
American
Musician
I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
Maria Callas,
American
Musician
#Voice
I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.
Maria Callas,
American
Musician
#Woman
#Artist
#Devil
First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis.
Maria Callas,
American
Musician
#First
#Voice