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• Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.
• Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a…
• To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest…
• Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this...only the best is good enough for a child.
• I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that…
• Often a single experience will open the young soul to music for a whole lifetime
• 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…
• We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
• Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as…
• Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil;…
• Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to…
• Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save…

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