Cases Quote by Alma Gluck

Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his…

— Alma Gluck

We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he…

— Alma Gluck

Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American…

— Alma Gluck

Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.

— Alma Gluck

If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for…

— Alma Gluck

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does “what he does for one reason and one reason…

— Alma Gluck

A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is…

— Alma Gluck

The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.

— Alma Gluck

When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc.…

— Alma Gluck

One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.

— Alma Gluck

French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires…

— Alma Gluck

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

— Alma Gluck