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Music Pedagogue Inspirational Quotes (1483)

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Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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I have this ideal listener, as John Cage did. This listener doesn't bring expectations that my music will fit into some part of music history, or that it will do any particular thing. This listener is just open to listening.
Missy Mazzoli
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I shall hear in heaven.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity.
Joshua Bell
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Our riches, being in our brains, die with us... Unless of course someone chops off our head, in which case, we won't need them anyway.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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If one's life depends on doing something right, as in the case of the tightrope walker, one will practice on a much deeper level.
Kenny Werner
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We live in the least ugly time in history.
Joshua Bell
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An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.
Marian Seldes
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Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
Elliott Carter
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Sometimes you feel some artists are doing the same thing that you're doing but in a different field. But they have the same approach. Their method of research and gathering data is the same as yours.
Missy Mazzoli
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Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.
Gian Carlo Menotti
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The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.
Andres Segovia
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Good Morning, on July 7 My thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved I can only live wholly with you or not at all- Be calm my life, my all. Only by calm consideration of our existence can we achieve our purpose to live together. Oh continue to love me, never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. Ever Thine Ever Mine Ever Yours
Ludwig van Beethoven
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Someone once said that the two most important things in developing taste were sensitivity and intelligence. I don't think this is so I'd rather call them curiosity and courage. Curiosity to look for the new and the hidden courage to develop your own tastes regardless of what others might say or think.
R. Murray Schafer
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I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.
Martha Graham
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It's important to give kids an opportunity to see what the world is about, and music is a fantastic friend.
Pinchas Zukerman
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Music is the only art that actually lives.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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Music, as long as it exists, will always take its departure from the major triad and return to it. The musician cannot escape it any more than the painter his primary colors or the architect his three dimensions.
Paul Hindemith
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Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it may appear, which is anything but transcendent. He has reached the heart of every noble thought, and has done it in the most perfect way.
Pablo Casals
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All of a sudden I found myself doing things like 'Robot Monster' and 'Cat-Women of the Moon,' and I didn't know what the devil was going on. But if you're going to do areally bad movie, at least you do one that is at the top of the all-time bad-movie list.
Elmer Bernstein
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There is no such thing as making the miracle happen spontaneously and on the spot. You've got to work.
Martina Arroyo
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The first generation from the '50s that were in 1650 [Broadway] were pretty much all crooks, I mean just out and out crooks. And the next generation had a little more finesse. But I mean those first wave of people, you know, definitely would take all your money, no doubt about it.
Al Kooper
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To retire is the beginning of death.
Pablo Casals
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People knew about Babi Yar before Yevtushenko's poem, but they were silent. And when they read the poem, the silence was broken. Art destroys silence.
Dmitri Shostakovich
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