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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…
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The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for…
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The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in…
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We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions…
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When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English…
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Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote…
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A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether…
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French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels.…
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If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not…
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Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding…
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The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does “what he does for one reason and…
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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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We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain…
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Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its…
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Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and…
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Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in…
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A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.
— Joseph Pulitzer
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I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a…
— Maureen O'Hara
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But I think what we're coming to grips with is the fact that we actually have a mercenary Army, and it doesn't…
— Eleanor Clift
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That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own…
— George Washington
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Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.
— C.S. Lewis
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I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead.
— Barry Eisler
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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…
— Alma Gluck
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