Alma Gluck Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

10 Famous Quotes by Alma Gluck
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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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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“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.”
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“Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.”
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“One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.”
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“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.”
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“The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.”
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