Zoltan Kodaly Quotes

#1. I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.

Twyla Tharp

#2. Almost all good businesses engage in 'pain today, gain tomorrow' activities.

Charlie Munger

#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. Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.

Anatole France

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

Zoltan Kodaly

#6. A person's life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they're actually willing to sacrifice for it.

Craig Clevenger

#7. They were probably hitting the town. I hoped it was hitting them back.

Lemony Snicket

#8. Horny asshole? He's not the one leaving here with Truckstop Barbie. That would be you, sir, and you don't even know me, so I don't see why you should mind where I choose to direct my romantic affections. Her

Lauren Gilley

#9. 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

#10. Certain things might appear to be bad or wrong in our eyes but if we try to look at from a different angle it would appear true or right.

Joseph Jose

#11. for dinner." He told himself not to be distracted

Deborah Hawkins

#12. I know who I want to be and I want you by my side as I become that person.

Katie McGarry

#13. She's cute, you know?" Ollie bent forward and picked up the last slice of pizza and stood. "Only she could pass out in the presence of our awesomeness."
I laughed softly. "It was too much for her. She was overwhelmed.

J. Lynn

#14. One thing my father taught me," he told her quietly, "is that everyone has their price. From the highest to the lowest, we will all bargain. It's just a matter of finding what yours is.

Jayne Castel

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. I never really had male influences in my life. Steady, male influences. And that's what I wanna be for my family. As a musician, I definitely will attain everything that I set out to. I work very hard. But more important to me is that my family is taken care of.

Trey Songz

#18. 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

#19. 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

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

Zoltan Kodaly

#21. I'm realizing that for so much of my life I had an older viewpoint; I saw things as an older person. That's common among change-of-life babies. So I have this dichotomy where I'm either, like, super young or feel like I'm coming to the end of my years.

John Travolta

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

Zoltan Kodaly

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

Zoltan Kodaly

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Language has not the power to speak what love indites
The soul lies buried in the Ink that writes

John Clare

#27. I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.

V.S. Naipaul

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

Zoltan Kodaly

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

Zoltan Kodaly