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Musicologist Inspirational Quotes (3250)

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It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.
Maureen Forrester
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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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God knows, I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
Robert Burns
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Every time I'm in the woods, i feel like I'm in church.
Pete Seeger
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Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base, as soon as I.
Walter Scott
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The moon... is a mass, akin to the mass of the earth, attracts the waters by a magnetic force, not because they are liquid, but because they possess earthy substance, and so share in the movements of a heavy body.
Johannes Kepler
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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
Nadia Boulanger
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Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to pay for musicians. The kings and queens had musicians in the castles, and that developed into symphony orchestras and what we call Classical music now.
Pete Seeger
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No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.
Ry Cooder
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The fatal flaw of gravity when you are down, everything falls down on you.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
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It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.
John Cage
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The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of the universal will to live.
Albert Schweitzer
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
Robert Burns
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When you're too concerned about branding, you're restricting yourself.
Nelly Furtado
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The smallest thing in its rightful place can lead to the highest goals.
Rudolf Steiner
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I prefer you to take as your model a mediocre sculpture rather than an excellent painting, for from painted objects we train our hand only to make a likeness, whereas from sculptures we learn to represent both likeness and correct incidence of light.
Leon Battista Alberti
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I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes.
Sergei Prokofiev
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There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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