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
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
ART is domination. It's making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours. #MariaCallas
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
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
I don't need the money, dear. I work for art. #MariaCallas
I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage. #MariaCallas
To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming. #MariaCallas
I don’t like listening to myself – I don’t like the kind of voice I have. #MariaCallas
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
