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I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
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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. #MariaCallas
07.10.2025 11:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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
06.10.2025 18:00 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis. #MariaCallas
06.10.2025 11:00 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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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
05.10.2025 18:00 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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
05.10.2025 11:00 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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. #MariaCallas
04.10.2025 18:00 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Love is so much better when you're not married. #MariaCallas
04.10.2025 11:00 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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I never lost my voice, but I lost strength in my diaphragm. I lost my bravery and fearlessness. As a result... my voice wobbled because I overstrained it. #MariaCallas
03.10.2025 18:00 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage. #MariaCallas
03.10.2025 11:00 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules. #MariaCallas
02.10.2025 22:00 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We serve this unique art – the music most of all. It takes a lot of worry and a lot of anguish. It was left to us as a heritage and we must carry it on against all odds – even at our own health’s cost. #MariaCallas
02.10.2025 15:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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
01.10.2025 22:00 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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
01.10.2025 15:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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
30.09.2025 22:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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On the whole there are two people in me. I would like to be Maria, but there is the Callas that I have to live up to. #MariaCallas
30.09.2025 15:00 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The basis is the schooling of bel canto to sing whatever you sing. #MariaCallas
29.09.2025 22:00 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The critics said that I was tired at the end of Traviata but I took it as a compliment because I struggled to find this tired quality for her and it's dangerous. #MariaCallas
29.09.2025 15:00 — 👍 31 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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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. #MariaCallas
28.09.2025 22:00 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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If you take the trouble to really listen with your soul and with your ears - and I say soul and ears because the mind must work, but not too much also - you will find every gesture there. And it is all true, you know. #MariaCallas
28.09.2025 15:00 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage. #MariaCallas
27.09.2025 22:00 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Only when I was singing did I feel loved. #MariaCallas
27.09.2025 15:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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
26.09.2025 22:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must. #MariaCallas
26.09.2025 15:00 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Music should be essentially simple and upon simplicity and beauty of line it can become great. #MariaCallas
25.09.2025 22:00 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We are not creators. We are performers. #MariaCallas
25.09.2025 15:00 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules. #MariaCallas
24.09.2025 22:00 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I dislike when critics treat me so cruelly because I know exactly what I do – I even know what I do worse! – I tear myself even more to pieces. I dislike being told that I should do this or I should do that. I know far too well what I should do. #MariaCallas
24.09.2025 15:00 — 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping. #MariaCallas
23.09.2025 22:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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. #MariaCallas
23.09.2025 21:33 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I never lost my voice, but I lost strength in my diaphragm. I lost my bravery and fearlessness. As a result... my voice wobbled because I overstrained it. #MariaCallas
23.09.2025 21:33 — 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0