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Music Pedagogue Inspirational Quotes (1484)

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It is difficult to see the great dance effects as they happen, to see them accurately, catch them fast in memory. It is even more difficult to verbalize them for critical discussion. The particular essence of a performance, its human sweep of articulate rhythm in space and in time has no specific terminology to describe it by.
Martha Graham
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The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.
Lotte Lehmann
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But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content.
Anne Boyd
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Consider what a romantic expedition you are on take notes.
Anne Boyd
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Having nothing to do, I am correcting the Paris edition of Bach not only the engraver's mistakes, but also the mistakes hallowed by those who are supposed to understand Bach (I have no pretensions to understand better, but I do think that sometimes I can guess).
Frederic Chopin
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Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.
Robert Schumann
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Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for. Slowly but surely, it became clear that the last thing I was interested in was freedom. Because if you're going to be free, you have to be free from something.
Anthony Braxton
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I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.
Leonard Slatkin
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Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that.
Andres Segovia
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It is impossible to feign mastery of an instrument, however skillful the impostor may be.
Andres Segovia
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Every guitarist has a special quality of sound. The best ones will use a good ear, much sensitivity and a thorough knowledge of music to prepare the nuances and colors of sound.
Andres Segovia
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The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.
Andres Segovia
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Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?
Andres Segovia
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When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors in its voices.
Andres Segovia
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I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.
Andres Segovia
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I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.
Pat Metheny
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Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness.
Arthur Honegger
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It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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There's not an orchestra in the world that doesn't have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just too big.
Leonard Slatkin
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You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.
Robert Schumann
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The task of a teacher is not to work for the pupil nor to oblige him to work, but to show him how to work.
Wanda Landowska
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You play Bach your way, and I’ll play him his way.
Wanda Landowska
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Friendship is more important than truth.
Wanda Landowska
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Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.
Nadia Boulanger
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