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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 day American publishers."
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"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose."
"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye."
"The most beautiful rainbow is the one inside your soul."
"Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation."
"Things of themselves cannot touch the soul at all. They have no entry to the soul, and cannot turn or move it. The soul alone turns and moves itself, making all externals presented to it cohere with the judgements it thinks worthy of itself."
"A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul."
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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 Songs, etc. How simple and charming they are!"
"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."
"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."
"The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime."
"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."
"Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers."
"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."
"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."
"Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works."
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