Emile Jaques-Dalcroze famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the entire being. To insist on analysing this force is to destroy its very essence.
-- Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

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Congenial labor is essence of happiness.
The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view ... The essence of a field is that the cultural accommodates the natural there. The human being makes room for and makes use of those organisms that are not him. In that way the field is a poem to symbiosis, and a human contract with the natural.
We are not separate. Our sense of separateness is superficial and exist only in the physical dimension. In our human element, we are not separate; weâ€™re very much connected. Every other human being is just as precious as we are, and worthy of as much respect and love and consideration. This understanding needs to manifest in our conduct in each moment. This is the part of the Work that will transform you.
People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.
Magic likes a good tragedy, too.
If you would bring the magic out of your mind - the magic which will transform everything - you must believe.
For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat.
My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.

Emile Jaques-Dalcroze famous quotes

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