Quotes by Alma Gluck - Page 1

One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.
Alma Gluck / Singer
Doe
Goal
Study
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Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.
Alma Gluck / Singer
Artist
Bird
Butterfly
Natural
Just
Because
Works
Characteristic
His
Sings
Soars
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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 / Singer
Mere
Nine
Study
Ten
Accident
Sings
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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 / Singer
Teacher
Careful
Hands
Study
Understanding
Vocal
Teachers
Likely
Survive
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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.
Alma Gluck / Singer
Art
Branches
Break Through
Green
Sincerity
Song
Springtime
Naturally
Worker
Leaves
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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.
Alma Gluck / Singer
Piano
Study
Voice
Begins
Complete
Developed
Instrument
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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.
Alma Gluck / Singer
Mercenary
Publishers
Purses
Sides
Soul
Fairly
Purse
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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.
Alma Gluck / Singer
No Idea
Real Artist
Sacrificing
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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”
Alma Gluck / Singer
Art
Real
Sacrifice
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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.
Alma Gluck / Singer
Advice
Giving Up
Goal
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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.
Alma Gluck / Singer
English Speaking
Subtlety
Trying
Vowels
Way
Complex
French
Requires
Utmost
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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.
Alma Gluck / Singer
Quality
Quantity
Singers
Song
Finds
Singer
Hundreds
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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!
Alma Gluck / Singer
Charming
Etc
Safe
Simple
Song
Voice
English
Complete
Student
Lyric
Repertoire
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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 / Singer
Art
Egotism
Sacrifice
Species
Thinking
Deceives
Deplorable
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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.
Alma Gluck / Singer
Advice
Students
Want
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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.
Alma Gluck / Singer
Art
Energy
Immense
Literature
Martyr
Overwhelming
Vocal
Art Work Will
Acquiring
Devote
Energies
Repertoire
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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 / Singer
Advice
Refuse
Urgent
Worthwhile
Time Work Me
Appeal
Student
Work Time Me
Invariably
Requests
Send
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