Quotes by Maria Callas

Maria Callas

[During fee negotiations for singing in Vienna:] I’m not interested in money, but it must be more than anyone else gets.

Negotiation

Singing

Vienna

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.

House

Imagination

Long

ART is domination. It’s making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours.

Art

Thinking

Voice

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.

Enough

Trouble

Window

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

Dams

Don't Talk To Me

Talk To Me

First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I’ve lost Onassis.

Loss

Voice

Weight

I admire Tebaldi’s tone; it’s beautiful – also some beautiful phrasing. Sometimes, I actually wish I had her voice.

Beautiful

Voice

Wish

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not a devil, either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.

Angel

Artist

Devil

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.

Feelings

Giving

House

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

Elevators

Up And Down

Voice

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Angel

Art

Artist

Beautiful

Callas

Children

Criticism

Curtains

Dams

Dark

Dear God

Demand

Devil

Different

Difficult

Dignity

Distance

Dog

Don't Talk To Me

Drama

Ears

Education

Elevators

Enemy

Enough

Expression

Failure

Fashion

Feelings

Feels

Fireworks

Friendship

Girl

Giving

Hands

Happens

House

Hurt

I Can

Imagination

Knees

Long

Loss

Love

Love Is

Lying

Married

Matter

Mean

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Quotes by Maria Callas

Maria Callas

[During fee negotiations for singing in Vienna:] I’m not interested in money, but it must be more than anyone else gets.

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.

ART is domination. It’s making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours.

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.

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

First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I’ve lost Onassis.

I admire Tebaldi’s tone; it’s beautiful – also some beautiful phrasing. Sometimes, I actually wish I had her voice.

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not a devil, either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.

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.

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

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