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.
Alma GluckThe sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.
Alma GluckJust as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.
Alma GluckAcquiring 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.
Alma Gluck