How to Sing Quotes

“It will be much more correct to call every tone of every voice by the name of a new additional register, for in the end, every tone will and must be taken in a different relation, with a different position of the organs, although the difference may be imperceptible, if it is to have its proper place in the whole.”
― Lilli Lehmann, How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst]: Enriched edition. Mastering Vocal Techniques for Opera and Beyond

“In a musical figure I must attack the lowest note in such a way that I can easily reach the highest. I must, therefore, give it much more head tone than the single tone requires. (Very important.)”
― Lilli Lehmann, How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst]: Enriched edition. Mastering Vocal Techniques for Opera and Beyond

“Students of singing should use the early morning hours, and fill their days with the various branches of their study.”
― Lilli Lehmann, How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst]: Enriched edition. Mastering Vocal Techniques for Opera and Beyond

“Among a hundred singers hardly one can be found whose single tones meet every requirement. And among a thousand listeners, even among teachers, and among artists, hardly one hears it.”
― Lilli Lehmann, How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst]: Enriched edition. Mastering Vocal Techniques for Opera and Beyond

“One who has sung for a short time, and then has lost his voice, and for this reason becomes a singing teacher, has never sung consciously; it has simply been an accident, and this accident will be repeated, for good or for ill, in his pupils.”
― Lilli Lehmann, How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst]: Enriched edition. Mastering Vocal Techniques for Opera and Beyond

“Few teachers concern themselves with the fundamental studies; they often do not sing at all themselves, or they sing quite wrongly; and consequently can neither describe the vocal sensations nor test them in others. Theory alone is of no value whatever.”
― Lilli Lehmann, How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst]: Enriched edition. Mastering Vocal Techniques for Opera and Beyond