A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my … - Alma Gluck

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I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.

Alma Gluck

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.

Advice, Student, Students, Urgent, Want

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

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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!

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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.

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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.

Art, Break Through, Green, Song, Worker

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