French Is, In Many Ways, More Difficult

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.

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.

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 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”

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.