Question 19 - Without comment

I am happy to share the collection I started 30 years ago with suggestions, statements, doctrinal opinions of lecturers who mentor young people in their professional vocal studies. 

A selection. Without comment:

• Tighten your vocal folds...
• You have to get your tones from the universe...
• Just pull your belly in tightly: that's support.
• And when you have it (the tone) up there, don't let it go, develop that desire, - so that the skull explodes...
• You do forte with lots and lots of air....
• Don't go through with power but "directly"....
• Let it flow - let a lot more air with it.
• Send a lot more air.....
• Forte with lots and lots of air....
• You just have to push it up a bit....
• It can hurt sometimes. You have to endure that if you want to become a real singer....
• You have to fill up (when you breathe in).
• Breathe in deeply so that you feel the air in your stomach.....
• You're shaking again! Can't you turn off the tremolo?
• Your body must be hard as steel when you sing.....
• The tongue belongs in the garage (behind the lower incisors)...
• The tongue must be as hard as a rock...
• It's best to push the tongue down with a spoon; that way you get the throat low...
• Always sing as if you had a hot potato in your mouth....
• Nasal means your nose is stuffed up like a cold....
• You should get out of your nose (Exercise Ne mi ne mi no mi ne.....) Don't sing so nasally....
• Open your jaw wide and push your tongue down - that's what it takes for classical singing....
• Inhale is "baby in the belly" - exhale is like pushing the baby out during childbirth....
• Stay ugly in the voice (when practising twang extensively)
• The flanks must be hard as steel...
• Singing is like jogging - you don't think about how to do it...
• Don't make such a fuss. Sometimes it has to hurt so that you know it's right...
• Always keep your lips protruded, that's your mouthpiece....
• The soft palate is not important! Always these stupid singers who make such a funny movement with their hand from above. There's no need for that!
• The larynx must always be low...
• Singing needs a lot of power...
• Technique is not important...
• Basses don't need technique...
• After the menopause, women can't sing any more anyway...
• I have to control my students...
• You have to do what I say...
• Why do you keep crying in my class? Get a hold of yourself!
• We pull sounds out of our mouths like golden threads...
• You have to hear the air - that's what all singers do...
• Professional singers just sing  - without thinking much...
• Why do you always want to know how to do it? You should just start singing now!
• Open your mouth wide; that's how your voice gets loud....
• Press your belly firmly inwards and hold it tight....
• Let everything loose; that's how you sing for a long time....
• Everything must be relaxed. Always drop the jaw....
• Push your belly always out when you sing....