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.

[During fee negotiations for singing in Vienna:] I'm not interested in money, but it must be more than anyone else gets.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

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.

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

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

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