People in movies and TV seem to be completely dumb to what's going on in the real world and relationships.

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.

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”

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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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.

Teach don't preach!

Be a teacher.Be a healer.Be a giver.Be a winner.

A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.

When I meditate in the morning, it really changes my day and my relationship with my day.

When I was a kid, they'd say, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" kids would go Wonder Woman, an astronaut. Do you know what I always said? World domination - so we're on our way.

I'm taking memory power boost tablets to help me every day and doing the puzzles to help me stay focused.

The only right way: to love and serve the man of the modern world, but not simply to succumb, with him, to all his illusions about the world.