Let the student of singing beware of the numerous impostors who claim to have a "Method," a sort of bed of procrustes, which the victim, whether long or short, is made to fit.
"Style in Singing"
W. E. Haslam
There could be no truce between those who believed that everything must be fashioned after old models, that procrustes must settle the height and depth, the length and breadth of art-forms, and those who, inspired with the new wine of liberty and free creative thought, held that the rule of form should always be the mere expression of the vital, flexible thought.
"The Great German Composers"
George T. Ferris
procrustes only lopped the limbs to suit the measure of his bed; but these rules and moulds for the spiritual life, cut down the new man, who is made by God's Spirit, to the earthly standard of some narrow stunted experience of other times.
"Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors"
James Freeman Clarke