The voice is nothing but beaten air. One orator in a family, nay, even in a city, is enough. It usually takes more than 3 weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. He was wrong.
Opera is music and drama.
I'm prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time. The singing man keeps his shop in his throat. The requisites of a singer - a big chest, a big mouth, ninety percent memory, ten percent intelligence, lots of hard work and something in the heart. On Public Speaking I take the view, and always have done, that if you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it. Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.