Zoltan Kodaly famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to say in any other language. If we do not want these things to remain dead treasures, we must do our utmost to make the greatest possible number of people understand their idiom.
-- Zoltan Kodaly

#Numbers #People #Treasure
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

#Song #Simple #Singing
There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music.
-- Zoltan Kodaly

#Spiritual #Soul #Life Without Music
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. Music is nourishment, a comforting elixir. Music multiplies all that is beautiful and of value in life.
-- Zoltan Kodaly

#Beautiful #Comforting #Treasure
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
-- Zoltan Kodaly

#Book #Silence #Way
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.
-- Zoltan Kodaly

#School #Joy #Singing
Often a single experience will open the young soul to music for a whole lifetime
-- Zoltan Kodaly

#Soul #Lifetime #Young
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. A well-trained hand. All four must develop together, in constant equilibrium. As soon as one lags behind or rushes ahead, there is something wrong. So far most of you have met only the requirement of the fourth point: the training of your fingers has left the rest far behind. You would have achieved the same results more quickly and easily, however, if your training in the other three had kept pace.
-- Zoltan Kodaly

#Heart #Hands #Training
Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.
-- Zoltan Kodaly

#Art #Powerful #Real
Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save us from this fate.
-- Zoltan Kodaly

#Fate #Men #Singing
Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.
-- Zoltan Kodaly

#Music #Comforting #Beauty Of Life
I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years time.
-- Zoltan Kodaly

#Years #Symphony #Twenties
To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.
-- Zoltan Kodaly

#Children #Reading #Giving
The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same
-- Zoltan Kodaly

#Law #Moral
Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this...only the best is good enough for a child.
-- Zoltan Kodaly

#Children #Enough #Good Enough

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