Alma Gluck Quotes

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

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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

Acquiring Art Days Devote Energies Himself His Imagine Immense Literature Martyr Overwhelming Repertoire Sense Student Vocal Will Work

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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

Complex Difficult English-Speaking French Full Many More Person Requires Sing Subtlety Trying Utmost Ways

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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

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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

Before Begins Case Complete Developed He Instrument Piano Study Voice

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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

American Day Every Every Day Fairly Inspired Many Mercenary Out Publishers Purse Put Rather Side Soul Than Works

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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

Artist Because Bird Butterfly Characteristic His Just Natural Sings Soars Works

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One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.

~ Alma Gluck

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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

Art Artist Does Doing He Help Himself Idea No Idea Real Real Artist Reason Sacrificing

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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

Art Branches Break Dead Green Leaves Must Naturally Sincerity Song Springtime Through Worker

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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

Art Deceives Deplorable Egotism Giving He Himself His Life Like Sacrifice Species Spirit Student Thinking Victim Who

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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

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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

Before Finds Go He Hundreds Quality Quantity Rather Really Rich Says Singer Something Songs Than Through

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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

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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

Accident Because Does Goal Help Mere Nine Out Sings Study Ten Times

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Alma Gluck

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Musician

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11 May, 1884

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27 October, 1938

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