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• Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every…
• The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for…
• The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in…
• We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions…
• When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English…
• Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote…
• A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether…
• French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels.…
• If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not…
• Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding…
• The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does “what he does for one reason and…
• In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to…

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