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 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
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
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
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
Often a single experience will open the young soul to music for a whole lifetime — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share
Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this...only the best is good enough for a child. — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share
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.… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share
Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share
