You go through your career and you find people and cast who you love and you go through and keep them and you never want to let them go because you have a great repertory with them.

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.

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

EVERY person and experience HAS contributed to who you have become today. NOTHING was wasted

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes but few have the gift of penetration.

I'm a big fan of Donald Trump's.

Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution.

One's task is not to turn the world upside down, but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.

Always work to cause your horse to follow the path of least resistance. Then place an opening for him to pass through so that the path of least resistance becomes the direction you want him to go in.

Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.

There is humor that's just whimsy, that we smile at, but the humor that we laugh at, someone has to be - someone's dignity has to be reduced.

Even if my father wasn't speaking to me, he would never, ever miss a baseball game.