Maria Callas Quotes - Page 2

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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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• I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.

  Maria Callas

  Rehearsal

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• I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.

  Maria Callas

  Artist, Thinking, Different

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• It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.

  Maria Callas

  Thinking, Rocks, Your Side

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• Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.

  Maria Callas

  Fashion, Paris, World

  "Grande nuit de l'Opéra" by Marie-Jacques Perrier, Women's Wear Daily, December 20, 1958.

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• On stage, I am in the dark.

  Maria Callas

  Dark, Stage

  "Auction to make hearts of diva's devotees soar" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2000.

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• When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.

  Maria Callas

  Enemy, Standing

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• 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

  Children, Responsibility, Should Have

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• The public is a monster and that is why I am not eager to return to the stage.

  Maria Callas

  Monsters, Return, Stage

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• 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?

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  Hurt, People, Should

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• I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.

  Maria Callas

  Voice, Elevators, Up And Down

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• It takes a little more time to get into the role, but not very much more. In making a record you don't have the sense of projection over a distance as in an opera house. We have this microphone and this magnifies all details of a performance, all exaggerations. In the theater, you can get away with a very large, very grand phrase. For the microphone, you have to tone it down. It's the same as making a film, your gestures will be seen in close-up, so they cannot be exaggerated as they would be in a theater.

  Maria Callas

  Distance, House, Records

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

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• I will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel!

  Maria Callas

  Angel, Voice

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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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  Girl, Play, Young Friends

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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.

  Maria Callas

  Window, Trouble, Enough

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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.

  Maria Callas

  Drama, Sight, People

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• I admire Tebaldi's tone; it's beautiful - also some beautiful phrasing. Sometimes, I actually wish I had her voice.

  Maria Callas

  Beautiful, Voice, Wish

  Interview with Norman Ross, Chicago, November 17, 1957.

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