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Zoltan Kodaly
Hungarian
Composer
About the author
Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.
Zoltan Kodaly,
Hungarian
Composer
#Children
The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
Zoltan Kodaly,
Hungarian
Composer
#Music
#Morals
#Laws
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
Zoltan Kodaly,
Hungarian
Composer
#Will
#Music
#Sound
#Silence
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,
Hungarian
Composer
#First
#Reading
#Singing
#Training
#Giving
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,
Hungarian
Composer
#People
#Art
#Humanity
#Mankind
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,
Hungarian
Composer
#Time
#Will
#Years
#Composers
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,
Hungarian
Composer
#Action
#Time
#Song
#Singing