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

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

- Alma Gluck

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

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 reall…

- Alma Gluck

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 depl…

- Alma Gluck

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 su…

- Alma Gluck

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 …

- Alma Gluck

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

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

- Alma Gluck