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Collector Of Folk Music Inspirational Quotes (20)

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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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Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.
Zoltan Kodaly
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Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.
Zoltan Kodaly
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With music, one's whole future life is brightened. This is such a treasure in life that it helps us over many troubles and difficulties. Music is nourishment, a comforting elixir. Music multiplies all that is beautiful and of value in life.
Zoltan Kodaly
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It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.
Bela Bartok
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I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.
Bela Bartok
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Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.
Zoltan Kodaly
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It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learned to live with music more worthily. Whoever works to promote this end, in one way or another, has not lived in vain.
Zoltan Kodaly
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There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music.
Zoltan Kodaly
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Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical idea can be expressed with utmost perfection in terms of brevity of form and simplicity of means.
Bela Bartok
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To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.
Zoltan Kodaly
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With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.
Bela Bartok
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In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
Bela Bartok
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same
Zoltan Kodaly
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Often a single experience will open the young soul to music for a whole lifetime
Zoltan Kodaly