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Ethnomusicologist Inspirational Quotes (61)

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In Europe we have the loss of self motif clearly illustrated in the whirl dances of the Russians sects of the Molokani in Armenia....All the countries that bordered the Meditteranean in ancient times, and the less remote sections of Asia as well, appear to have had whirl dances.
Curt Sachs
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Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.
Curt Sachs
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Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.
Alexander John Ellis
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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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...we may be able to prove conclusively that all men are born with potentially brilliant intellects...and that the source of cultural creativity is the consciousness that springs from social cooperation and loving interaction...the majority of us live far below our potential, because of the oppressive nature of most societies.
John Blacking
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Where you find obesity, you'll find poverty. It's a reflection of the South's struggle to raise its standard of living.
William R. Ferris
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The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive man tens of thousands of years ago in what is now France.
Curt Sachs
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The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes...but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies
Alan Lomax
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The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round dance - they forget themselve, they dissolve the weight of earthly contact and the rigidity of daily existence. The soul slips into a twilight stage.
Curt Sachs
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The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the cultural richness of mankind.
Alan Lomax
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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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One cannot say with words what music says without them.
Steven Feld
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The ultimate aim of dancing is to be able to move without thinking, to be danced.
John Blacking
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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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The oldest form of the Choral Dance is the circle. Even the chimpanzees dance in a circle, and people of every continent still do it.
Curt Sachs
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Folk Music is the map of singing.
Alan Lomax
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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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Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be sure, it is no pure Negro dance and owes its best qualities to the unusual dance talents of the Spaniards.
Curt Sachs
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When we say the South lost the Civil War, we mean the white South. The blacks were liberated. And it's trying to redefine this Southern myth and bring it in a more positive direction.
William R. Ferris
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If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the evolution of musical language, whose progressive development comes about through transgressions of a given era's perceptual habits.
Jean-Jacques Nattiez
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The English dance unites the guests of an evening by the spell of rhythmical movement into a chance casual community.
Curt Sachs
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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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Wherever there are four walls, consciousness of direction is far keener.
Curt Sachs
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I do not eat meat, I do not smoke, and I do not drink, and therefore, I do not feel the cold.
Percy Grainger
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