Callas Quotes

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

  María Callas

  Demand, Dignity

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• When Callas carried a grudge, she planted it, nursed it, fostered it, watered it and watched it grow to sequoia size.

  Harold C. Schonberg

  Size, Grudge, Grows

  Harold C. Schonberg (1985). “The virtuosi: classical music's legendary performers from Paganini to Pavarotti”, Vintage

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• Los cantantes más criticados de la historia de la ópera, Maria Callas y Franco Corelli, resultan ser también los mejores cantantes. Es un honor para mí formar parte de su grupo.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Groups, Opera, Singers

  "'My hands are frozen and my heart races': Andrea Bocelli says crippling stage fright is like an incurable disease" by Tom Bryant, www.mirror.co.uk. February 8, 2013.

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• It didn't feel organic and [Tito] Gobbi was one of the artists that was able to, along with Maria Callas, incorporate not just the sound, but the emotion, the technique of the singing.

  Robert Davi

  Artist, Singing, Technique

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• When I was a teenager, I dreamed of being an opera singer like Maria Callas or a jazz singer like June Christy or Chris Connor, or approaching songs with the kind of mystical lethargy of Billie Holiday, or championing the downtrodden like Lotte Lenya. But I never dreamed of singing in a rock-and-roll band.

  Patti Smith

  Song, Teenager, Holiday

  "Rocker Patti Smith, 'Dream Of Life'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 30, 2009.

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• The best-case scenario here is that you make friends with a boy who's going to die." "Ah," said Calla, in a very, very knowing way. "Now I see." "Don't psychoanalyse me," her mother said. "I already have. And I say again, 'ah'.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mother, Boys, Knowing

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• The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Memories, Flower, Wedding Day

  "Fictional character: Terry Randall". Stage Door, www.imdb.com. 1937.

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• I will not enter into a public feud with Madame Callas, since I am well aware that she has considerably greater competence and experience at that kind of thing than I have.

  Rudolf Bing

  Feuds, Kind, Competence

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• Elvis Presley is my spiritual father, and as you may know Maria Callas is my spiritual mother.

  Klaus Nomi

  Mother, Spiritual, Father

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• In those days, you had to like one or the other. You couldn't like Sutherland AND Callas.

  Terrence McNally

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• For sheer strength of character, I wouldn't have dared to cross swords with Callas. I would rather have gone six rounds with Jack Dempsey.

  John Huston

  Character, Gone, Six

  John Huston, Robert Emmet Long (2001). “John Huston: Interviews”, p.168, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Singing, Opera, Firsts

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• I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Soul, Lilies, Chrysanthemums

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 140, 1982.

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• Maura whirled towards Blue. "Blue, if you ever see that man again, you just walk the other way." "No," Calla corrected. "Kick him in the nuts. Then run the other way.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Running, Men, Blue

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.102, Scholastic Inc.

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• Calla readjusted, wrapping the silk around her other thigh instead. "Which one's he again? The pretty one?" Blue and Gansey exchanged a look. Blue's look said, I'm so, so sorry. Gansey's said, Am I the pretty one?

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Sorry, Blue, Looks

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.148, Scholastic Inc.

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• Estoy casi tan borracha como para ser trascendente", dijo Calla al cabo de un espacio. No era la única médium que bebía, pero era la que estaba más cerca de la trascendencia. Perséfone miró dubitativa el fondo de su propio vaso. Con voz muy pequeña (su voz siempre era pequeña), dijo tristemente: "No estoy borracha en absoluto". Maura respondió: "Es el ruso que hay en ti". "Estonio", respondió Perséfone.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Beber, Copas, Psíquicos

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• When does it happen?" "It already has," Calla replied. Her eyes opened and fixed on Blue. "And it hasn't yet. Time' circular, chicken. We use the same parts of it over and over. Some of us more than others.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, Blue, Doe

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.302, Scholastic Inc.

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• I thought you said scrying was a bad idea.” “It's like vodka,” Calla said. “It really depends on who's doing it.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Ideas, Vodka, Said

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.96, Scholastic Inc.

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• Then Maura made something with butter and Calla made something with bacon and Blue steamed broccoli in self-defense.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Blue, Self, Defense

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.348, Scholastic Inc.

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• The calla lilies are in bloom again.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Lirios

  Katharine Hepburn (1992). "Yo: Historias de mi vida", Random House Large Print Publishing

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