17 Quotes by Maria Callas
- Love is so much better when you're not married.
- On stage, I am in the dark.
- 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.
- 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.
- When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.
- When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.
- 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.
- Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
- I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.
- Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
- 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.
- I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
- I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.
- I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.
- I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
- 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.
- First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis.
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