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Music Pedagogue Inspirational Quotes (1495)

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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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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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