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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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"Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow."
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"I study to learn, to be an educated person."
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"Knowledge is like a vast ocean."
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"You need to study, to examine deeply the field you are interested in."
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"Perfect study is the key to being effective in the land of your calling."
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"Knowledge is enthusiasm to learn."
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"Learn, learn."
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"Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics."
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"I don't study; I create."
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"I wrote a lot in study hall to while away the hours."
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"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."
Quality
"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."
Life
"The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime."
Art
"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."
Art
"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!"
Control
"One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident."
Goal
"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."
Art
"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."
Advice
"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."
Soul
"Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works."
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