Will Gluck Quotes

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.

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”

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

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.

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 and charming they are!

The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.

Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.

A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests.

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 deplorable species of egotism.

There are not that many roles in comedies that are completely driven by a young actress.

You go through your career and you find people and cast who you love and you go through and keep them and you never want to let them go because you have a great repertory with them.

When you people have a set up joke and the joke is set up straight and the words are just well written, I always say "C'mon, humans don't speak that way."

People in movies and TV seem to be completely dumb to what's going on in the real world and relationships.

I put so much pop culture in my movies because we speak about pop culture all the time. But, for some reason, movies exist in a world where there's no pop culture.

When I did TV shows and my other movies, I never try to do it for anybody. I just do what I think is good no matter what the genre is.

When you have a movie about people landing from planet Neptune, you suspend disbelief. I totally get it. But I like doing things that happen in real life.

I try not to read the Internet because it's mostly just a sea of hatred.

I like to deconstruct things, deconstruct genres and stories.

I like doing character movies. I like doing movies about personal situations; that's what I love about dealing with things.

I don't like having characters as props. I never want a character to be a prop.

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

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.

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.

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.