“What [Tulio Serafin] said that impressed me was: "When one wants to find a gesture, when you want to find how to act on stage, all you have to do is listen to the music. The composer has already seen to that." If you take the trouble to really listen with your soul and with your ears - and I say soul and ears because the mind must work, but not too much also - you will find every gesture there. And it is all true, you know.” IfsKnowsWantMindSaidSoulToo MuchTroubleStageEarsYour SoulComposerGesturesImpressedTrue You Author:Maria Callas
“Natural emotion is the soul of poetry, as melody is of music; the same faults are engendered by over-study of either art; there is a lack of sincerity, of irresistible impulse in both the poet and the, composer.” ArtSoulNaturalEmotionStudyPoetFaultsImpulseMelodySincerityComposerIrresistible Book:Poets of America Source: Poets of America