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Ethnomusicologist Inspirational Quotes (61)

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It removes the limitations of his body, extinguishes his consciousness, and pours the divine spirit into him. The whirl dance is the purest form of dance devotion.
Curt Sachs
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In dance, even the weakest can do wonders.
Curt Sachs
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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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The peoples influenced by the animal dance have a variety of movements and dance with enthusiasm those who do not know the animal dance have few movements and show little zest for dancing.
Curt Sachs
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Dream Song: As my eyes Search the prairie, I feel the summer in the spring. Whenever I pause The noise Of the village.
Frances Densmore
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The Moon Pie is a bedrock of the country store and rural tradition. It is more than a snack. It is a cultural artifact.
William R. Ferris
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The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.
Curt Sachs
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The dance in which the men form one row, the women another, and dance with and opposite each other in a form of love play, is widely diffused and may be confidentally assigned to a Protoneolithic culture level.
Curt Sachs
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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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The superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying powers in a state of high tension. In the dance even the weakest can do wonders.
Curt Sachs
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Often a single experience will open the young soul to music for a whole lifetime
Zoltan Kodaly
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I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.
Alan Lomax
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