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 Copy Share Image
The characteristics of a good musician can be summarized as follows: 1. A well-trained ear. 2. A well-trained intelligence. 3. A well-trained heart. 4. A well-trained hand. All four must develop together, in constant equilibrium. As soon as one lags… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound. — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to say in… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music. — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
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.… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
Often a single experience will open the young soul to music for a whole lifetime — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this...only the best is good enough for a child. — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save us from… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learned to live with music more worthily. Whoever works to… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
