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Maria Callas

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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


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


— Maria Callas


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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


#being #enough #greatest #greatest weapon #hands

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


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


— Maria Callas


#haven #life #rock #side #terrible

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


#age #childhood #children #early #early age

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


— Maria Callas


#dear #goddam #i #make #me

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


— Maria Callas


#happens #i #know #me #over

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


#best #between #difference #ends #foresee

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


— Maria Callas


#i #know #shall #slipping #stop






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The renunciation also helped her finances as Maria Callas no longer had to pay US taxes on her income. Previously Maria Callas was shown in the commercial. "
Callas herself stated that in Opera Acting must be based on the Music quoting Maestro Tullio Serafin's advice to her:

"When one wants to find a gesture when you want to find how to act onstage all you have to do is listen to the music.

However her artistic achievements were such that Leonard Bernstein called her "The Bible of opera"; and her influence was so enduring that in 2006 Opera News wrote of her: "Nearly thirty years after her death Maria Callas's still the definition of the diva as artist—and still one of classical music's best-selling vocalists. The press exulted in publicizing Callas's allegedly temperamental behaviour her supposed rivalry with Renata Tebaldi and her love affair with Aristotle Onassis. Her dramatic life and personal tragedy have often overshadowed Callas the artist in the popular press.

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