Alma Gluck Quotes

Alma Gluck — American Musician born on May 11, 1884, died on October 27, 1938

Alma Gluck was a Romanian-born American soprano... (wikipedia)

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.

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

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.

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.

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 Quotes

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