Alma Gluck Quotes
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
Quotes to Explore
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
