We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
—Zoltan Kodaly
The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
—Zoltan Kodaly
Topics: Law, One liners
Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this… only the best is good enough for a child.
—Zoltan Kodaly
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
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
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
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