To sing,
the instrument, the absolutely material machine, must be
in perfect order. The rest is easy.
Some singers can commit indiscretions of diet and of
lack of exercise. But not you, because you lack this
natural strength. Do not be deceived and misled by their
example.
Exercise. You must make your body strong, powerful.
You have not the muscles by nature. You must acquire
them.
The following routine of diet and exercise made one of the
great singers, and kept her great for a quarter of a century.
If you adopt it, without variation, you can make a career.
If you do not, you need not hope for anything but failure
and humiliation. Within my knowledge sixty-eight young
men and young women have started in on this system. Not
one had the character to persist to success. This may
suggest why, except two who are at the very top, all of the
great singers are men and women whom nature has made
powerful of body and of digestion--so powerful that
their indiscretions only occasionally make them unreliable.
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