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Music Pedagogue Inspirational Quotes (1483)

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Send light to the dark hearts of men, that is the duty the artist.
Robert Schumann
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Sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't leaving being musician because I use to like it when noone came to see me playing, because I didn't feel any pressure. I can enjoy myself and probably play better. Sometimes when I play, people expect something of me, and I'm not always able to to that. Quite often. So I get totaly nervous
Allan Holdsworth
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I don't think about what other people expect or anything. I mean, I sit and worrying so much about what I'M thinking, I'd go NUTS if I sat around worrying about other people.
Allan Holdsworth
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My parents didn't really know one another.
Christopher Durang
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It depends on me whether life is good or not. Not on life, on me.
Alice Herz-Sommer
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Music was our food... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music!
Alice Herz-Sommer
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Complaining doesn't change people... All that complain, this is terrible... It's not so terrible.
Alice Herz-Sommer
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I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing
Alice Herz-Sommer
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I think backwards. This was beautiful. Instead of forward.
Alice Herz-Sommer
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Music was our way of remembering our inner selves, our values.
Alice Herz-Sommer
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And life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.
Alice Herz-Sommer
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Music saved my life and music saves me still...
Alice Herz-Sommer
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I wrote much more quickly when I was younger. Over the years I've required more time in order for the pieces to arrive in a place I am happy with. The process cannot be rushed. I have to live with a piece for quite a while to feel it ultimately is where it needs to be - though anything resembling complete satisfaction remains elusive.
Michael Hersch
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I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed.
Artur Schnabel
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I set down a beautiful chord on paper—and suddenly it rusts.
Alfred Schnittke
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If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, or you're a woman and you can't go into the park, you are aware there's a menace. That's costly on a psychic level. The world should be striving to make all its members secure.
Tony Kushner
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I enjoy the challenge of taking something which was not meant for the piano, distilling its essence and writing or improvising it for/at the piano, but having the listener forget that he or she is listening to a piano.
Michael Hersch
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As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.
Frederic Chopin
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I always wanted to be a film composer. So very early on I started collecting soundtracks and paying attention to how movie music works. Actually I'd like to have the opportunity to conduct for the rest of my life.
Alexandre Desplat
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When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.
Joshua Bell
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Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.
Marsha Norman
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There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.
Harrison Birtwistle
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I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that I write. I consider this one of the most vital aspects of my work.
Peter Maxwell Davies
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The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.
Colin Davis
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