virginia woolf

"above all, you must illumine your own soul with its profundities, and its shallows, and its generosities, and say what your beauty means to you or your plainness, and what is your relation to the ever changing and turning world..."

"Q: How can a singer transmit his emotions to an audience?"

"A: By feeling strongly himself. Sympathy is the sole transmitter of emotion and the feelings of an audiences are excited by our own, as the vibrations of one instrument are awakened by the vibrations of another." Hints on Singing, Garcia