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Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.
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Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a…
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To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest…
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Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this...only the best is good enough for a child.
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I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that…
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Often a single experience will open the young soul to music for a whole lifetime
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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…
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as…
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Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil;…
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Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to…
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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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It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When…
— David Byrne
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All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini…
— H. L. Mencken
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Remember Haydn's 104 symphonies. Not all of them were great. But there were 104 of them.
— Raymond Carver
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Moving pictures need sound as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics,
— Charlie Chaplin
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I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that…
— Zoltan Kodaly
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The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
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Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.
— Neville Marriner
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Symphonies can generate a tremendous amount of sounds, beauty, and emotion. That is part of their human feel and sweetness. Keyboards, on…
— Yanni
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Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
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Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth.…
— Malcolm Arnold
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I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.
— Alan Hovhaness
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For a man to argue, 'I don't go to church; I pray alone,' is no wiser than if he should say, 'I…
— George Arthur Buttrick
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