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Music Pedagogue Inspirational Quotes (1495)

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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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Inspiration the seed. Design but the flower.
Michael Langham
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I'm not particularly lucid after a concert. I'm not very lucid before, either.
Leonard Slatkin
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We shouldn't repeat the same for ages on end, but look into the new as well.
Robert Schumann
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A true music, that is to say, spiritual, a music which may be an act of faith a music which may touch upon all subjects without ceasing to touch upon God an original music, in short, whose language may open a few doors, take down some yet distant stars.
Olivier Messiaen
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The center of the stage is where I am.
Martha Graham
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Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer's art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories--when his dancing days are over.
Martha Graham
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The very funny thing about Like A Rolling Stone is it was a six minute song, there was no music to read from. And there I was playing this unfamiliar instrument. So I would come in on the upbeat of one. I would wait until the band played the chord, and then as quickly as I could come in play the chord.
Al Kooper
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Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity and played the organ.
Al Kooper
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Every now and then we could steal somebody else's stuff.
Al Kooper
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I started in the music business I was first introduced to 1650 Broadway, uh, which was in reality where everything happened in the '60s.
Al Kooper
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Unlike so many Dylan-writer-wannabes and phony 'encyclopedia' compilers, Sean Wilentz makes me feel he was in the room when he chronicles events that I participated in. Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research.
Al Kooper
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My first love in music was jazz, but I like it all, I reacted emotionally to Art Blakey and, of course, to Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery. I was all of 16 when I had my first guitar lesson with Joe. But I never focused on being a bebop player. I loved the harmony, rhythm and phrasing, but I wanted to apply them to my own concept and sound.
Larry Carlton
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