Rehearsal and voice lesson quotes compiled by Debra’s students – also quotes found penciled in the margins of choir music returned at the end of the semester.
- Rational thinking? Not so much. Creative thinking? We’ve got this!
- Perspective changes everything.
- Blunder boldly!
- Why choose to sound like a dying moose if you don’t have to?
- I like my Bach fugues reedy!
- Listen like an archeologist searching for artifacts. What can you find beneath the surface?
- The problem is rarely the high note. It’s the approach that needs fixing.
- Tenors are the Evel Knievels of the singer world.
- You never need a contingency plan until you don’t have one.
- Let go of the reins. Trust the horses. They know the way home.
- What note is that? Q Double-sharp???
- Nobody cares about the bottom of the staff.
- Trajectory! Trajectory! Trajectory!
- That’s not even good enough for jazz!
- Always shop from the top shelf. Squatting in the grocery aisle is messy and dangerous.
- Never hit the brakes on an entrance ramp, baby!
- Put it. Don’t force it.
- Release the air faster. Blow the letters off the library!
- Yay! You remembered to take off the emergency brake!
- There’s a profound sense of rhythmic constipation going on here.
- Opera beaming makes me grumpy!
- Bite the apple, sopranos!
- Fphv-fphv-fphv-fphv-fphv — (describing the acoustics at Basilica di San Marco in Venice, Italy)
- Your mama don’t wear no socks!
- Imagine you’re a paint brush.
- Where’s my camera phone?
- Stretch the taffy, but don’t break it.
- Bind a shepherd to the altar! — (misquoting Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb)
- Give me Cheezits!
- SCHICCHI!!!!
