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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 teachers."
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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 teachers."
Age
"We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something."
Quality
"The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it."
Art
"When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc. How simple and charming they are!"
Control
"One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident."
Goal
"A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests."
Advice
"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 the utmost subtlety."
Language
"If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident."
Work
"The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism."
Life
"Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works."
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"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."
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Personal Development
"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."
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Personal Development
"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."
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Personal Development
"Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age."
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Personal Development
"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."
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Personal Development
"The golden age is before us, not behind us."
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Personal Development
"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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Personal Development
"Not even old age knows how to love death."
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Personal Development
"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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Personal Development
"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."
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Personal Development
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