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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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"Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul."
"Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement."
"Soul mates may be linked, but fight to separate, causing wounds and confusion. They teach what no one else can."
"I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul."
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"The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear."
"We are wonderful souls in a wondrous world."
"We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls."
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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."
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