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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art.
Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.
In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.
An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more.
Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
If a composer is to reach his audience emotionally - and surely that's what theatre music is all about - he must reach the people through sounds they can relate to.
There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.
You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of pain, of dying, all of which we have in our lives, and then stage them in front of audience and go through them and tell the audience, 'I'm your mirror; if I can do this in my life, you can do it in yours.'
Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.