Jerome Hines Quotes

"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!"
-Jerome Hines

"Actually, I've been a fanatical health nut for five years."
-Jerome Hines

"The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones."
-Jerome Hines

"Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present."
-Jerome Hines

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

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

"Don't be led astray by the oversimplified notion that proper use of the breathing apparatus will magically provide a panacea for all your vocal problems. To say that vocal technique is nothing more than breath control is as foolish as saying that a steam locomotive is nothing more than a boiler."
-Jerome Hines

"It is not enough merely to memorize and spout vocal axioms: good singing is infinitely more than much talk and head-knowledge."
-Jerome Hines