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.

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!

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.