I make it a matter of conscience not to attempt a note unless I am in perfect tune throughout--mentally, spiritually and physically.

I should consider it an offence against the noblest of arts were I to sing just because somebody wishes to hear me." This is not entirely affectation.

The tendency of her art-education has been to make her disdainfully hypercritical.

It has not awakened the spirit of the true artist, who is quick to detect whatever promises excellence and encourages the tyro to make the best of his little talent.
With all our newly-born enthusiasm for German composers, we have not taken lessons from the German people in this matter of home music.

We do not even ask ourselves what has made them a musical nation.