I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
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.
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.
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.
Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
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.
When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.
I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.
It's a very terrible thing to be Maria Callas, because it's a question of trying to understand something you can never really understand.
First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis.
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.
I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
To me, the art of music is magnificent, and I cannot bear to see it treated in a shabby way.
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.
