Zoltan Kodaly Quotes:- Zoltan Kodaly (16 December 1882 – 6 March 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher.
Inspirational Zoltan Kodaly Quotes
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
Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this… only the best is good enough for a child.
Zoltan Kodaly
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
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
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
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