Gary Catona quotes

All singers, no matter how gifted, should always try to go improve. And all students begin in the same place despite the level of their talent. It's like bodybuilding: All people who train use similar exercises no matter how naturally physically endowed a person may be. I have worked with many of the most brilliant singers in modern music and it's always the case that they have a great deal of under-realized potential no matter how amazing their abilities.
-- Gary Catona

#Exercise #Bodybuilding #People

Singing is a kind of sport and a singer a kind of athlete and following this model becoming "vocally fit" - building vocal muscles - should be the point of any form of voice teaching. Other approaches don't work directly on building vocal muscles but instead focus on so-called diaphragm support and breathing, mask singing, breath control, throat relaxation - all of which are useless at best and harmful at worst.
-- Gary Catona

#Sports #Teaching #Athlete

I feel a great sense of pride and joy knowing that I played a part in bringing into the world more beauty and excitement.
-- Gary Catona

#Pride #Joy #World

It's one point to build a singing voice, but giving someone his or her own voice back is something else all together different. Imagine not being able to communicate with your voice and then having it back! It's truly a mind-blowing experience to hear that happen.
-- Gary Catona

#Giving #Singing #Together

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray.

The National Socialist Party will prevent in the future, by force if necessary, all meetings and lectures which are likely to exercise a depressing influence on the German state.

Whether we like it or not, the ultimate goal of every science is to become trivial, to become a well-controlled apparatus for the solution of schoolbook exercises or for practical application in the construction of engines.

The mind is incredible. Once you've gained mastery over it, channeling its powers positively for your purposes, you can do anything. I mean anything. The secret is to make your mind work for you not against you. This means constantly being positive. Constantly setting up challenges you can meet either today, next week, or next month. "I can't..." should be permanently stricken from your vocabulary, especially the vocabulary of your thoughts. You must see yourself always growing and improving.

What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?

Experiencing pain in your muscles and aching, that's what makes the muscle grow. and that divides one from being a champion and one from not being a champion. If you can go through this pain barrier, you may get to be a champion. If You can't go through it, forget it.

God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.