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Music Pedagogue Inspirational Quotes (1495)

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There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it.
Peter Erskine
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The new limitations are the human ones of perception.
Milton Babbitt
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You should never be too much involved... otherwise, you suffer and you can't sing. This is what happened in the very first years I sang Madame Butterfly.
Renata Scotto
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For me Wagner is impossible... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.
Robert Schumann
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Chopin was the first piano composer who knew exactly how to make piano sound reach fullness, radiance and grandness. What to regard and what, by all means, to avoid. Chopin was keenly aware of the overtones and he did take care of them so artfully.
Frederic Chopin
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In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
Martha Graham
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I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services.
Franz Liszt
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Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths.
Martha Graham
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We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come. Bye now. You are fabulous creatures, each and every one. And I bless you: More Life. The Great Work Begins.
Tony Kushner
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I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies - bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.
Martha Graham
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Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and feel. If we are to hope for a society of culturally literate people, music must be a vital part of our children's education.
Yo-Yo Ma
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Resist doing things that have no meaning for life.
Pablo Casals
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If I were still stupider than I am, I should think myself at the apex of my career yet I know how much I still lack, to reach perfection I see it the more clearly now that I live only among first-rank artists and know what each one of them lacks.
Frederic Chopin
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Perhaps it is music that will save the world.
Shinichi Suzuki
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I'll know I'm reaching the total American market when I'm asked to do a video for MTV.
Leonard Slatkin
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When a certain piece of music penetrates a person, a resonance is set in motion and an inner voice says: I like this resonance. It elevates me. It develops hitherto unknown possibilities in me. I don't recognize myself. This is very interesting.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.
Robert Schumann
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It's easier to interest a conservative audience in pushing the musical boundaries than to involve a young audience used to very noisy, assertive music in something like Schubert or Bach because the further back you go, the less bells and whistles there are.
Michael Tilson Thomas
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We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.
Emanuel Ax
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Part of what makes music so interesting is the lack of consensus on just about any given topic.
Michael Hersch
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By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There’s no specific line, as you know.
Leo Ornstein
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To play without passion is inexcusable!
Ludwig van Beethoven
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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
Martha Graham
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