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Music Pedagogue Inspirational Quotes (1483)

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I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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Sound is the vocabulary of nature.
Pierre Schaeffer
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Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe.
Elliott Carter
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I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.
Peter Maxwell Davies
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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
Robert Schumann
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When a piece gets difficult, make faces.
Artur Schnabel
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God first, then papa.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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I love reading it's a great way to avoid writing.
Tony Kushner
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You appear in the Novelletten in every possible circumstance, in every irresistible form... They could only be written by one who knows such eyes as yours and has touched such lips as yours.
Clara Schumann
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The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
Pablo Casals
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Players get to that intermediate level where they can already play pretty good, and that's kind of a dangerous period because they tend to start playing only the things that they can play, rather than the things they can't.
Pat Metheny
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
Harrison Birtwistle
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I believe that regardless of how many people you've listened to or emulated over the years, your sound is you and what you really feel inside.
Clark Terry
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Ultimately, musicians of the world must come to realize the potential of their calling... If the musician is illuminated from within, he becomes a lamp that lights other lamps.
Kenny Werner
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I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
Martha Graham
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Fred Sturm has proven to be a great asset to the musical world as a teacher, composer and author. His gifts have enriched the musical life of all the people who have been fortunate enough to share his wisdom and musicality.
Bob Brookmeyer
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As much as I have done collaborations over the years, I am actually kind of a reluctant partner.
Pat Metheny
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Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Although I hardly ever turn on the TV set unless it's football season, I do watch a lot of TV on my iPad - perfect for long airplane journeys.
Joshua Bell
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As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.
Tony Kushner
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As I love Mannheim, Mannheim loves me.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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The public doesn't want new music the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.
Arthur Honegger
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The hippest thing you can do is not play at all. Just listen.
Lennie Tristano
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Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.
Tony Kushner
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