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Ethnomusicologist Inspirational Quotes (61)

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The Medicine Man, taking his music with him, is passing quietly into the Great Silence, where the old songs were Received in Dreams by inner-plane communication.
Frances Densmore
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Cents are the most universally used interval measure.
Alexander John Ellis
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I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is closely linked to the Confederate flag.
William R. Ferris
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There is a mythic view of the South that's symbolized by the film Gone With The Wind that looks back fondly at slavery as a time when everything was happily in place - in place for whites.
William R. Ferris
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We have, for generations, been trying to be more inclusive of the word Southern. And a symbol like the confederate flag indicates white only are allowed into that world. And removing the Confederate flag from public view to the pages of history is long overdue.
William R. Ferris
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People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile.
Alan Lomax
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And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art.
Alan Lomax
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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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I think a proud Southerner is a Southerner who is aware of his or her past, and being proud of one's past does not mean you accept it. It means that you realize that we've come through the fire, and we're headed in another direction.
William R. Ferris
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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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Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.
Curt Sachs
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If you ask an Auin Bushman what realty happens at the puberty ceremonials, he will tell you, We dance. In the initiation customs of all peoples the dances play an especially important part. The dance is the center of wedding festivities.
Curt Sachs
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Every dance is and gives ecstasy.
Curt Sachs
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We must ask why apparently general musical abilities should be restricted to a chosen few in societies supposed to be culturally more advanced. Does cultural development represent a real advance in human sensitivity, or is it chiefly a diversion for elites and a weapon of class exploitation?
John Blacking
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The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.
Alan Lomax
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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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