When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

To me, the art of music is magnificent, and I cannot bear to see it treated in a shabby way.

I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.

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.

First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis.