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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."
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"The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it."
"Study the nature around you, but also within you."
"My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best."
"Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties."
"Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that I had to make a serious study- that my tastes were far more advanced than my abilities."
"The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method."
"Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow."
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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."
"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."
"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 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."
"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."
"The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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!"
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