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Music Pedagogue Inspirational Quotes (1483)

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I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted
Pat Metheny
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The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.
Michael Tilson Thomas
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The taste of death is upon my lips. I feel something that is not of this earth.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.
Yo-Yo Ma
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Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.
Andres Segovia
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The ultimate necessity is the summoning of the mind and will to do their duty.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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Your sound is you & what you really feel inside.
Clark Terry
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Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.
Nadia Boulanger
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Smokin' at the Half Note is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made. It is also the record that taught me how to play.
Pat Metheny
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Art is a process of concentration. It is both the distilled essence and the commentary upon otherwise mundane activities and reflections. Musical notes must be charged, must gather more than one and the surface meaning, must reveal audible and inaudible connections to other notes, patterns, and meaning, either by way of affinity or contrast.
Russell Sherman
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I never practice I always play.
Wanda Landowska
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I am nothing! If you could know the dream of what I would like to be, you would realize how little I have accomplished.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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When you are optimistic, when you are not complaining, when you look at the good side of your life, everybody loves you.
Alice Herz-Sommer
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Every day in life is beautiful...every day!
Alice Herz-Sommer
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Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING.
Kenny Werner
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Say things to the world that are true.
Pablo Casals
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
Martha Graham
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The muse doesn't come without being called.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Music is such a problem in the time it takes.
Harrison Birtwistle
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I had a marvelously happy childhood.
Darius Milhaud
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The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.
Tony Kushner
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Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!
Dmitri Shostakovich
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
Harrison Birtwistle
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