Jerome Hines Quotations

When I came to the Met, Robert Merrill and Leonard Warren sounded more like basses than most of the basses you hear today.

We are f acing a generation of young singers who are much more diminutive in their approach to singing.

It is not enough merely to memorize and spout vocal axioms: good singing is infinitely more than much talk and head-knowledge.

Don't be led astray by the oversimplified notion that proper use of the breathing apparatus will magically provide a panacea for all your vocal problems. To say that vocal technique is nothing more than breath control is as foolish as saying that a steam locomotive is nothing more than a boiler.

But, how little or how much of a good thing does it take to be bad? For example, water is good to drink. But drink too much of it and you drown!

Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.

Actually, Ive been a fanatical health nut for five years.

The motivation part is all essential in keeping my voice, but there are the human factors of discipline.

It is not enough merely to memorize and spout vocal axioms good singing is infinitely more than much talk and head-knowledge.

We are facing a generation of young singers who are much more diminutive in their approach to singing.

No matter what techniques and what disciplines you go through, I think there is one factor more intangible and that is the motivation to pick yourself off the ground when you've been totally bloodied and smashed and say, 'Let's fight some more.'.

The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.

This is my story, this is my song, praising my Saviour all the day long.