Top 52 Quotes About Callas
#2. For sheer strength of character, I wouldn't have dared to cross swords with Callas. I would rather have gone six rounds with Jack Dempsey.
John Huston
#3. The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers. I am honoured for being part of their group.
Andrea Bocelli
#4. When Callas carried a grudge, she planted it, nursed it, fostered it, watered it and watched it grow to sequoia size.
Harold C. Schonberg
#5. I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.
Maria Callas
#6. I will not enter into a public feud with Madame Callas, since I am well aware that she has considerably greater competence and experience at that kind of thing than I have.
Rudolf Bing
#7. In those days, you had to like one or the other. You couldn't like Sutherland AND Callas.
Terrence McNally
#8. Oh gods, Jean. Take a false name wherever we end up. Tavrin Callas is good. Let the bastard pop up all over the place.
Scott Lynch
#10. 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
#11. I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.
Maria Callas
#12. I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
Maria Callas
#13. 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.
Maria Callas
#14. 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
#15. When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.
Maria Callas
#16. It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.
Maria Callas
#17. Love is so much better when you're not married.
Maria Callas
#18. 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
#19. Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.
Maria Callas
#21. The public is a monster and that is why I am not eager to return to the stage.
Maria Callas
#22. I will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel!
Maria Callas
#23. 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
#24. When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.
Maria Callas
#25. 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
#26. - Who would carry the bell canto
- Of course Montserrat Caballe
Maria Callas
#27. 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
#28. I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
Maria Callas
#29. 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
#30. When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.
Maria Callas
#31. Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
Maria Callas
#33. Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
Maria Callas
#34. 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
#35. First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis.
Maria Callas
#36. I admire Tebaldi's tone; it's beautiful - also some beautiful phrasing. Sometimes, I actually wish I had her voice.
Maria Callas
#37. [During fee negotiations for singing in Vienna:] I'm not interested in money, but it must be more than anyone else gets.
Maria Callas
#38. 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
#39. To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
Maria Callas
#40. First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I've lost Onassis.
Maria Callas
#41. 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
#42. I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must.
Maria Callas
#44. I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.
Maria Callas
#45. I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
Maria Callas
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. Love is so much better when you are not married.
Maria Callas
#51. I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best,
Maria Callas
#52. 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
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