Zoltan Kodaly

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

— Zoltan Kodaly

Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to…

— Zoltan Kodaly

There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music.

— Zoltan Kodaly

With music, one's whole future life is brightened. This is such a treasure in life that it helps us over many troubles…

— Zoltan Kodaly

Often a single experience will open the young soul to music for a whole lifetime

— Zoltan Kodaly

Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this...only the best is good enough for a child.

— Zoltan Kodaly

To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest…

— Zoltan Kodaly

Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil;…

— Zoltan Kodaly

The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same

— Zoltan Kodaly

Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a…

— Zoltan Kodaly

Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save…

— Zoltan Kodaly

It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learned to live with music more worthily. Whoever…

— Zoltan Kodaly

I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that…

— Zoltan Kodaly

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…

— Zoltan Kodaly

Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as…

— Zoltan Kodaly

Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.

— Zoltan Kodaly