Maria Callas Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Artist

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Greatest

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

  Maria Callas

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Teacher

• On stage, I am in the dark.

  Maria Callas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stage

• Love is so much better when you’re not married.

  Maria Callas

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Better

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

  Maria Callas

  Topics in Life

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time

• I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must.

  Maria Callas

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

  Maria Callas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like, Myself

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

  Maria Callas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Marriage

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

  Maria Callas

  Topics in Art, Money

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

  Maria Callas

  Tags in Seems

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

  Maria Callas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like

• Good teachers make the best of a pupil’s means; great teachers foresee a pupil’s ends.

  Maria Callas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Great

• First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis.

  Maria Callas

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

  Maria Callas

  Tags in Rules

• 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

  Topics in Life

Maria Callas (22)

Birth:	2nd December, 1923
Death:	16th September, 1977
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Singer

About

Maria Callas  was an American-born Greek soprano and one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century. Critics praised her bel canto technique, wide-ranging voice and dramatic gifts. Her repertoire ranged from classical opera seria to the bel canto operas of Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini and further, to the works of Verdi and Puccini; and, in her early career, to the music dramas of Wagner.

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