Zoltan Kodaly Quotes

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

Giving, Him, Training

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

Good, Best, Children

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

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

Music, Book, Silence

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

Time, Understand, Young

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

Time, Simple, Same

The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
Zoltan Kodaly

Music, Same, Laws

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Biography

Nationality: Hungarian

Born: December 16, 1882

Died: March 6, 1967

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