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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 17h

Some say I have a beautiful voice, some say I have not. It is a matter of opinion. All I can say, those who don't like it shouldn't come to hear me. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

ART is domination. It's making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What am I? Is she only machines singing? No, she's a human being. I need help too. Life they say is terrible. Of course life is terrible, if we make it that way. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don’t like listening to myself – I don’t like the kind of voice I have. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When you learn to really become a musician after a singer, you have to put your instrument to the service of music. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Only when I was singing did I feel loved. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The full dress rehearsal, so there's no stopping unless it's something terribly, just like a performance with the critics, so you sing throughout with no interruption as it was a performance. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I've lost Onassis. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We serve this unique art – the music most of all. It takes a lot of worry and a lot of anguish. It was left to us as a heritage and we must carry it on against all odds – even at our own health’s cost. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Even though I did not like my voice I learned to accept it and to be detached and objective. My voice is unique as is everyone’s. It is not how we sing but the uniqueness we bring – like the way we walk or talk…one’s own unique persona. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Trills are necessary and they have to be well performed. Take Trovatore; Verdi and Donizetti used a lot of trills. They used them to express feelings so a trill is necessary as a technical skill for an interpreter. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Rehearsals absolutely must sing in full voice for your own sake, for your colleagues sake and the main thing is to test your own possibilities. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

[On Trills] A trill is a necessity this is the equipment that goes with our instrument. In these operas that we preform abbellimenti must be dealt with physically and technically. One must have these to serve the music and be an honest musician. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You learn the role. You will roughly learn it. As I say, because these goes in stages, you cannot expect to learn it immediately. You have to give it time to be learned to be matured. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If the last act is not superior to all the rest, well, you might as well not sing it. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What I learned from Sarafine was that you must serve music, because music is so enormous and can envelop you into such a state of perpetual anxiety and torture, but it is our first and main duty. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I dislike when critics treat me so cruelly because I know exactly what I do – I even know what I do worse! – I tear myself even more to pieces. I dislike being told that I should do this or I should do that. I know far too well what I should do. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

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

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Forget that you're singing - and these are the values - respect the values we try to be free for a minute. If you spoke these phrases, how would you speak them according to Bellinis style. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The critics said that I was tired at the end of Traviata but I took it as a compliment because I struggled to find this tired quality for her and it's dangerous. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

You always have to be the performer and function of the composer that the public will listen to and you must make it success. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Singers have to go through the same technique as instrumentals; a violinist a pianist or any instrumentalist has to learn his reading and writing. We use our body and vocal chords instead of an instrument. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

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

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The Metropolitan, like all of the other opera houses, do offer me every year a contract. I would specifically ask for a very fine conductor... lots of rehearsals... #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

What am I? Is she only machines singing? No, she's a human being. I need help too. Life they say is terrible. Of course life is terrible, if we make it that way. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Being honest is a hell of a price to pay, you might be... misunderstood, hated, attacked and I have not been able to fight back. It hurts... because it is unjust, the world is full of unjustness... #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The basis is the schooling of bel canto to sing whatever you sing. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If you take the trouble to really listen with your soul in with your ears you will find every gesture there and it's so true. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

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. #MariaCallas

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

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Maria Callas @mmecallas.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

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