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Music Pedagogue Inspirational Quotes (1483)

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'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
Martha Graham
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Practice with your fingers and you need all day. Practice with your mind and you will do as much in 1 1/2 hours.
Leopold Auer
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You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life.
Mstislav Rostropovich
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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking Is there a meaning to music? My answer would be, Yes, And Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? My answer to that would be No.
Aaron Copland
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The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.
Harrison Birtwistle
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People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.
Gyorgy Ligeti
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We are facing a generation of young singers who are much more diminutive in their approach to singing.
Jerome Hines
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I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.
Gyorgy Ligeti
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In any case, life is beautiful, extremely beautiful. And when you are old you appreciate it more. When you are older you think, you remember, you care and you appreciate. You are thankful for everything. For everything.
Alice Herz-Sommer
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It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.
Bela Bartok
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Sometimes you wish you could go back and ask your teachers again to guide you but up there onstage, exactly where they always wanted you to be, you must simply find your way. They have given all the help they can the only person who can solve the labyrinth of yourself is you.
Jeremy Denk
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The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.
Aaron Copland
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There are more good women in the world than there are men worthy of them!
Margaret Way
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All young lovers, whoever you are, I hope your troubles are few. All my good wishes go with you tonight. I've been in love like you.
Marni Nixon
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I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.
David Friedman
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As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are called great men fill me with nothing but overwhelming horror.
Franz Liszt
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I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.
Bela Bartok
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Life cannot be mastered by a method but needs to be met with an attitude of openness and discovery
Charlotte Selver
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A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.
Franz Liszt
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My grandmother always used to say, If you know your past and you know where you have to go, why do you rehearse? I always remember this and it's true. You have to start each day again-you can't repeat what you did.
Marian Seldes
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He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them .
Ludwig van Beethoven
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I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.
Roscoe Mitchell
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I know what it's like being with a major label. But I've always wanted to do things differently. And when I found out that the internet was a digital medium that could transfer binary code, the 0s and 1s - which is what a CD is - I knew it was only a matter of time before the feed would be fast enough to transfer files.
Michael Angelo Batio
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The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.
Robert Schumann
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