Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

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.

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!

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.

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

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 sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.