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… — 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
