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Top 30 Maria Callas Quotes (2025 Update)

Maria Callas Quote: “I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must.”

1. “I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must.”

— Maria Callas

Maria Callas Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

— Maria Callas

Maria Callas Quote: “Don’t come to me with your troubles. I have to work for my money and you are young enough to work too. If you can’t make enough money to live on you can jump out of the window or drown yourself.”

3. “Don’t come to me with your troubles. I have to work for my money and you are young enough to work too. If you can’t make enough money to live on you can jump out of the window or drown yourself.”

— Maria Callas

Maria Callas Quote: “Only my dogs will not betray me.”

4. “Only my dogs will not betray me.”

— Maria Callas

Maria Callas Quote: “To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.”

5. “To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.”

— Maria Callas

Maria Callas Quote: “What is there in life if you do not work? There is only sensation, and there are only a few sensations – you cannot live on them. You can only live on work, by work, through work. How can you live with self-respect if you do not do things as well as lies in you?”

6. “What is there in life if you do not work? There is only sensation, and there are only a few sensations – you cannot live on them. You can only live on work, by work, through work. How can you live with self-respect if you do not do things as well as lies in you?”

— Maria Callas

Maria Callas Quote: “Real friends are very special, but you have to be careful because sometimes you have a friend and you think they are made of rock, then suddenly you realise they’re only made of sand.”

7. “Real friends are very special, but you have to be careful because sometimes you have a friend and you think they are made of rock, then suddenly you realise they’re only made of sand.”

— Maria Callas

Maria Callas Quote: “I don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.”

8. “I don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.”

— Maria Callas

Maria Callas Quote: “It’s a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven’t.”

9. “It’s a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven’t.”

— Maria Callas

Maria Callas Quote: “Don’t talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.”

10. “Don’t talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.”

— Maria Callas

Maria Callas Quote: “ART is domination. It’s making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours.”

11. “ART is domination. It’s making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours.”

— Maria Callas

Maria Callas Quote: “Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.”

12. “Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.”

— Maria Callas

Maria Callas Quote: “I don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.”

13. “I don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.”

— Maria Callas

Maria Callas Quote: “First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I’ve lost Onassis.”

14. “First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I’ve lost Onassis.”

— Maria Callas

Maria Callas Quote: “When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.”

15. “When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.”

— Maria Callas

Maria Callas Quote: “I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven’t had much for myself. Music has enriched my life and, hopefully – through me, a little – the public’s. If anyone left an opera house feeling more happy and at peace, I achieved my purpose.”

16. “I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven’t had much for myself. Music has enriched my life and, hopefully – through me, a little – the public’s. If anyone left an opera house feeling more happy and at peace, I achieved my purpose.”

— Maria Callas

Maria Callas Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

— Maria Callas

Maria Callas Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

— Maria Callas

Maria Callas Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

— Maria Callas

Maria Callas Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

— Maria Callas

Maria Callas Quote: “On stage, I am in the dark.”

21. “On stage, I am in the dark.”

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Maria Callas Quote: “Only when I was singing did I feel loved.”

22. “Only when I was singing did I feel loved.”

— Maria Callas

Maria Callas Quote: “Love is so much better when you are not married.”

23. “Love is so much better when you are not married.”

— Maria Callas

Maria Callas Quote: “I will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel!”

24. “I will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel!”

— Maria Callas

Maria Callas Quote: “I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.”

25. “I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.”

— Maria Callas

Maria Callas Quote: “My poor sight gives me an advantage. I can’t see the people in the audience who are scratching their heads while I am lost in my role and giving everything I have to the drama.”

26. “My poor sight gives me an advantage. I can’t see the people in the audience who are scratching their heads while I am lost in my role and giving everything I have to the drama.”

— Maria Callas

Maria Callas Quote: “I admire Tebaldi’s tone; it’s beautiful – also some beautiful phrasing. Sometimes, I actually wish I had her voice.”

27. “I admire Tebaldi’s tone; it’s beautiful – also some beautiful phrasing. Sometimes, I actually wish I had her voice.”

— Maria Callas

Maria Callas Quote: “I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.”

28. “I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.”

— Maria Callas

Maria Callas Quote: “When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.”

29. “When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.”

— Maria Callas

Maria Callas Quote: “The public is a monster and that is why I am not eager to return to the stage.”

30. “The public is a monster and that is why I am not eager to return to the stage.”

— Maria Callas

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