Maria Callas
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I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming. #MariaCallas
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming. #MariaCallas
Opera is dead. It's outdated. And there's nothing you can do about it to change it. As singers if the composer did something bad, it's your responsibility to give it some coloratura, but that's all you can do. #MariaCallas
November 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Opera is dead. It's outdated. And there's nothing you can do about it to change it. As singers if the composer did something bad, it's your responsibility to give it some coloratura, but that's all you can do. #MariaCallas
In order to learn to really become a musician after a singer, you have to put your instrument to the service of music. #MariaCallas
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
In order to learn to really become a musician after a singer, you have to put your instrument to the service of music. #MariaCallas
First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis. #MariaCallas
November 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis. #MariaCallas
It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't. #MariaCallas
November 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't. #MariaCallas
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. #MariaCallas
November 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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. #MariaCallas
I have to feel what I do. I have to like people to be with them. I just cannot learn the art of being a hypocrite. I wish I could. #MariaCallas
November 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I have to feel what I do. I have to like people to be with them. I just cannot learn the art of being a hypocrite. I wish I could. #MariaCallas
They have taught me, and life has taught me that the last act is the most important, because, no matter how much and how well you've sung on the very few one or two or three to four first acts. #MariaCallas
November 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
They have taught me, and life has taught me that the last act is the most important, because, no matter how much and how well you've sung on the very few one or two or three to four first acts. #MariaCallas
You should wear longer skirts slacks on a theater. The public that looks at you from down there sees a little more that you might want. #MariaCallas
November 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
You should wear longer skirts slacks on a theater. The public that looks at you from down there sees a little more that you might want. #MariaCallas
Even though I did not like my voice I learned to accept it and to be detached and objective. My voice is unique as is everyone’s. It is not how we sing but the uniqueness we bring – like the way we walk or talk…one’s own unique persona. #MariaCallas
November 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Even though I did not like my voice I learned to accept it and to be detached and objective. My voice is unique as is everyone’s. It is not how we sing but the uniqueness we bring – like the way we walk or talk…one’s own unique persona. #MariaCallas
Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules. #MariaCallas
November 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules. #MariaCallas
Love is so much better when you're not married. #MariaCallas
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Love is so much better when you're not married. #MariaCallas
What am I? Is she only machines singing? No, she's a human being. I need help too. Life they say is terrible. Of course life is terrible, if we make it that way. #MariaCallas
November 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
What am I? Is she only machines singing? No, she's a human being. I need help too. Life they say is terrible. Of course life is terrible, if we make it that way. #MariaCallas
I don't need the money, dear. I work for art. #MariaCallas
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I don't need the money, dear. I work for art. #MariaCallas
What I learned from Sarafine was that you must serve music, because music is so enormous and can envelop you into such a state of perpetual anxiety and torture, but it is our first and main duty. #MariaCallas
November 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
What I learned from Sarafine was that you must serve music, because music is so enormous and can envelop you into such a state of perpetual anxiety and torture, but it is our first and main duty. #MariaCallas
On stage, I am in the dark. #MariaCallas
November 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
On stage, I am in the dark. #MariaCallas
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. #MariaCallas
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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. #MariaCallas
The only thing I can say is that people who don't like me can just not come and hear me. #MariaCallas
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The only thing I can say is that people who don't like me can just not come and hear me. #MariaCallas
ART is domination. It's making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours. #MariaCallas
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
ART is domination. It's making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours. #MariaCallas
When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage. #MariaCallas
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage. #MariaCallas
I don't think much of my talent. Uh, I didn't even think I had a voice... I always used to sing for pleasure. I never even dreamed of having to have a career as a singer. #MariaCallas
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I don't think much of my talent. Uh, I didn't even think I had a voice... I always used to sing for pleasure. I never even dreamed of having to have a career as a singer. #MariaCallas
You always have to be the performer and function of the composer that the public will listen to and you must make it success. #MariaCallas
November 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
You always have to be the performer and function of the composer that the public will listen to and you must make it success. #MariaCallas
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. #MariaCallas
November 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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. #MariaCallas
The Metropolitan, like all of the other opera houses, do offer me every year a contract. I would specifically ask for a very fine conductor... lots of rehearsals... #MariaCallas
November 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The Metropolitan, like all of the other opera houses, do offer me every year a contract. I would specifically ask for a very fine conductor... lots of rehearsals... #MariaCallas
You learn the role. You will roughly learn it. As I say, because these goes in stages, you cannot expect to learn it immediately. You have to give it time to be learned to be matured. #MariaCallas
November 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
You learn the role. You will roughly learn it. As I say, because these goes in stages, you cannot expect to learn it immediately. You have to give it time to be learned to be matured. #MariaCallas