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Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
Source: Reader's...
You don't need any brains to listen to music.
Source: From an Internet collection...
Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid? What sane man is not?
Source: In...
If your body is not in shape to sing [from the diaphragm] you will push and push but keep falling back on your throat...
In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but...
If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach...
Tanglewood [summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra] was a place where gods strode the...
We must continuously discipline ourselves to I remember how it felt the first moment.
Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to...
If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.
Source: In...
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it...
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it had missed the...
I would like to be Maria, but there is Las Callas who demands that I carry myself with her...
I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.
Source: In Maria Callas,...
Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves,...
The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach...
The essential [conditions] of everything you do . . . must be choice, love, passion.
Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a...
A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
Source: In...