"Teach music and singing at school in such……" — Zoltan Kodaly
"Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime."
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Zoltan Kodaly
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15 Quotes by Zoltan Kodaly
Zoltan Kodaly has 15 quotes on this site.
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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…
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To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to…
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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…
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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.…
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining…
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Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible…
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Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not…
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Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing…
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There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by…
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