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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.

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.