Jerome Hines Quotations

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

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.

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