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Music Pedagogue Inspirational Quotes (1483)

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I really think of my motives, my melodies, my harmonies, as being these things that are very much alive. They have these little lives of their own that are stretched and pulled, and I do conceive of my music in a very narrative way.
Missy Mazzoli
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If you steal from one person is Theft, and if you steal from Lots of people is Research
Guthrie Govan
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People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.
Mstislav Rostropovich
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[On the music of Richard Strauss:] Too many notes!
Nadia Boulanger
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Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?
Tony Kushner
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And of the fact that every vision of the past is a vision of the blind
Jacques Roubaud
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Brahms stayed an extra day to hear my [Fifth] Symphony and was very kind ... I like his honesty and open-mindedness. Neither he nor the players liked the finale, which I also think rather horrible.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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I really do not aim at any originality.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns.
Jules Massenet
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Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
Franz Liszt
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Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.
Zoltan Kodaly
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I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit.
Emanuel Ax
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I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.
Frederic Chopin
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The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.
Dmitri Shostakovich
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After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.
Yo-Yo Ma
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If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach.
Aaron Copland
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But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, theres a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression thats possible with the instrument.
Gary Burton
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Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.
Zoltan Kodaly
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A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.
Yo-Yo Ma
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A bachelor, in my opinion, is only half alive.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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With music, one's whole future life is brightened. This is such a treasure in life that it helps us over many troubles and difficulties. Music is nourishment, a comforting elixir. Music multiplies all that is beautiful and of value in life.
Zoltan Kodaly
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There is an energy within... pure strength... the energy of the person which is put in different forms, in different shapes... once we discover that energy I think that such a thing as dance becomes such a delight because you're moving on a stream that is you but it is even over and beyond you.
Katherine Dunham
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There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.
Gyorgy Ligeti
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