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Music Pedagogue Inspirational Quotes (1483)

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But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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I know perfectly well that no musician can make his thoughts or his talents different to what Heaven has made them but I also know that if Heaven had given him good ones, he must also be able to develop them properly.
Felix Mendelssohn
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Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?
Clara Schumann
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Here's the thing about politics: It's not an expression of your moral purity and your ethics and your probity and your fond dreams of some utopian future. Progressive people constantly fail to get this.
Tony Kushner
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The pedal is the soul of the piano.
Anton Rubinstein
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I wanted to be like my heroes, but I also wanted to be me.
Michael Angelo Batio
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I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling.
Elmer Bernstein
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In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.
Gyorgy Ligeti
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People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.
Richard Rodney Bennett
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So, let us, you and I, for the sake of our brother man, individually strive by example and influence to lift the standard of thought and conduct from the low level of selfishness and self-indulgence up to the lofty realms of aspirational thought and self-denial.
Ossian Everett Mills
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If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.
Marsha Norman
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I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.
Christopher Durang
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My primary calling, I always knew since the age of 11, was as a composer, and so that had to take priority.
Gunther Schuller
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If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.
Gunther Schuller
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It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
Martha Graham
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The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.
Arthur Honegger
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Elizabeth Lutyens was the first professional composer that I ever knew. I sent someextremely infantile pieces that I I'd written and got marvellous encouragement andinterest from her... she's certainly the English composer who's influenced me themost.
Richard Rodney Bennett
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I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.
Franz Liszt
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It cannot remain unmentioned that so many poorly equipped boys, and boys who have no talent at all for music, have been accepted into the school to date that the quality of music has necessarily declined and deteriorated. And those who do bring a few precepts with them when they come to school are not ready to be used immediately.
Johann Sebastian Bach
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We liked it or I didn't like it people say. As if it were nothing higher than to please the people!
Robert Schumann
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The basic idea of a hyper instrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows how its being played - literally what the expression is, what the meaning is, what the direction of the music is.
Tod Machover
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If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job.
Emanuel Ax
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And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may hurt financially, so what? We do it because we are born to do it, we feel we have no other choice and so be it.
Gunther Schuller
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I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
Pat Metheny
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