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"It is a rare piece of legislation indeed where there is so much agreement about the goals."

"The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was."

"I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have."

"You didn't just pay lip service to the goal of overcoming the division of Europe and Germany... Rather, you put yourself at the forefront of those who encouraged us on the way to unity."
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"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!"

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art."

"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."
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