Expressive Voice Culture

We may forget what we are doing, but we must be able to know, or there will be nothing worth while to forget! The danger of the mechanical idea–the extreme technician’s notion that the sign is enough–is that the person may become an automaton and inhibit the power of real feeling in himself; and though he may perform admirably and win the applause of some critics who love form unduly, he fails in the great issue and wins only superficial success or fails utterly, without seeing why. The real experience has a magnetism of its own and will win above mere technicality whenever it has the opportunity.