In my poor words technique should be the equipment that one has in being able to to interpret. You learn the solfege, you learn the harmonies, you learn music. Then you learn how to interpret. #MariaCallas
ART is domination. It's making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours. #MariaCallas
Maria Callas
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All those little notes all the legatos all the everything that comes with music is what you call technique. An instrumentalist knows how to make his notes well with the proper intonation because intonation is also a necessity to technique. #MariaCallas
I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was. #MariaCallas
I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage. #MariaCallas
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
You should wear longer skirts slacks on a theater. The public that looks at you from down there sees a little more that you might want. #MariaCallas
In other words, sing exactly as it's written, nothing more, nothing less, which is the phrase that I call straight jacketing, faster infinitely strictly how the composer wrote it. #MariaCallas
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. #MariaCallas
When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage. #MariaCallas
