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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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"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."
"I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait."
"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."
"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"
"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"
"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."
"For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."
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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 be developed by study."
"The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime."
"Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works."
"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!"
"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."
"Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers."
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