Kodaly Zoltan Quotes

#1. I would give my life a thousand times that God might not be offended.

Gerard Majella

#2. Virtue is its own punishment - "nice girls" lose - and one of the surest signs of potential proficiency in witchcraft is an inability to get along with other women.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#3. 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

#4. There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music.

Zoltan Kodaly

#5. You can tell when a Hollywood historical film was made by looking at the eye makeup of the leading ladies, and you can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future.

Alfred Bester

#6. 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

#7. I was an outcast growing up with a bunch of Christian people. My father didn't go to church, and that was not good news if you lived right in the middle of it.

Del Shannon

#8. Love I want you for my mate because you have eyes the color of smoke. Because you are wicked sexy, because you're fearless and have a smart-ass mouth, and because you kiss like fire. Why wouldn't I want a woman like you around me the rest of my life?

Jennifer Ashley

#9. Shed the past, forget the future, and fall into the moment feet first.

Gabrielle Roth

#10. 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

#11. After millions of years of evolution, we start stupid cults of celebrity and feed the egos of maniacs until they take our money, fuck us in the arse, and then cut our throats. We should be cutting their throats!

Adam Nevill

#12. Most people think money is the key to reducing risk. Prepartion is.

Mark Cuban

#13. There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this ... only the best is good enough for a child.

Zoltan Kodaly

#18. People vote with their hearts, not their heads.

Irene Rosenfeld

#19. Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.

Zoltan Kodaly

#20. That no generally applicable law of the formulation and development of hybrids has yet been successfully formulated can hardly astonish anyone who is acquainted with the extent of the task and who can appreciate the difficulties with which experiments of this kind have to contend.

Gregor Mendel

#21. We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

Zoltan Kodaly

#22. It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learned to live with music more worthily. Whoever works to promote this end, in one way or another, has not lived in vain.

Zoltan Kodaly

#23. 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

#24. Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

Dalai Lama

#25. I have owned and played a Steinway all my life. It's the best Beethoven piano. The best Chopin piano. And the best Ray Charles piano. I like it, too.

Randy Newman

#26. As reporters in State College, there was a joke. We used to call Penn State, the Kremlin.

Rodney Erickson

#27. The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.

Zoltan Kodaly

#28. Often a single experience will open the young soul to music for a whole lifetime

Zoltan Kodaly