One Does Not Study For A Goal.

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.

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.

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.

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.