Alma Gluck Quotes

#1. 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.

Alma Gluck

#2. Time and again, a student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worthwhile to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests, saying that if the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it.

Alma Gluck

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

Alma Gluck

#4. 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.

Alma Gluck

#5. 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!

Alma Gluck

#6. Rod Stewart, Elton John and I were going to form a band called Hair, Nose & Teeth after the three of us. But it hasn't happened because none of us can agree on the order of the words!

Freddie Mercury

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

Alma Gluck

#8. 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.

Alma Gluck

#9. One does not study for a goal. One sings because one can't help it! The 'goal' nine times out of ten is a mere accident.

Alma Gluck

#10. 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.

Alma Gluck

#11. 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.

Alma Gluck

#12. I don't make promises, by and large, that I can't keep.

John Kasich

#13. The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.

Robert Morley

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

Alma Gluck

#15. Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.

Michel De Montaigne

#16. My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac.

Sherman Alexie

#17. I've always been a huge fan of thrillers like David Fincher's 'Se7en.' I am fascinated by the disturbing, dark underbelly of life. I find such films deeply engrossing. They delve deep into the human psyche, and that's a place worth exploring.

Emraan Hashmi

#18. 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.

Alma Gluck

#19. 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.

Alma Gluck

#20. My office window overlooks a parking lot. I've got the best view on the whole submarine.

Jarod Kintz

#21. I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right.

Alan Lee

#22. 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.

Alma Gluck

#23. 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.

Alma Gluck

#24. Regard mistakes as teachers, not judges!

Tae Yun Kim