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Music Pedagogue Inspirational Quotes (1483)

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If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.
Aaron Copland
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I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.
Aaron Copland
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
Aaron Copland
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The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.
Aaron Copland
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This whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, “Is there a meaning to music?” My answer to that 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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So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
Aaron Copland
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Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to say in any other language. If we do not want these things to remain dead treasures, we must do our utmost to make the greatest possible number of people understand their idiom.
Zoltan Kodaly
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
Zoltan Kodaly
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Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save us from this fate.
Zoltan Kodaly
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I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years time.
Zoltan Kodaly
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Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this...only the best is good enough for a child.
Zoltan Kodaly
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Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.
Zoltan Kodaly
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The kind of theater that I do is sort of ‘narrative realism,’ which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream. I mean, in a certain sense, Suzan-Lori's plays have had mainstream levels of success. But Suzan-Lori is in some ways not a narrative realist.
Tony Kushner
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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
Nadia Boulanger
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Your fragility is also your strength.
Pina Bausch
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It's about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
Dmitri Shostakovich
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On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid.
Christopher Durang
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Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.
Galina Vishnevskaya
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
Yo-Yo Ma
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When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.
Mstislav Rostropovich
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...You couldn't help being influenced by Dylan.
Al Kooper
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If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.
Katherine Dunham
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Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.
Christopher Durang
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