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Music Pedagogue Quotes (1478)

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Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for. Slowly but surely, it became clear that the last thing I was interested in was freedom. Because if you're going to be free, you have to be free from something.
Anthony Braxton
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I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.
Leonard Slatkin
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Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that.
Andres Segovia
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It is impossible to feign mastery of an instrument, however skillful the impostor may be.
Andres Segovia
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Every guitarist has a special quality of sound. The best ones will use a good ear, much sensitivity and a thorough knowledge of music to prepare the nuances and colors of sound.
Andres Segovia
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The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.
Andres Segovia
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Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?
Andres Segovia
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When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors in its voices.
Andres Segovia
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I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.
Andres Segovia
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I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.
Pat Metheny
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Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness.
Arthur Honegger
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It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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There's not an orchestra in the world that doesn't have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just too big.
Leonard Slatkin
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You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.
Robert Schumann
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The task of a teacher is not to work for the pupil nor to oblige him to work, but to show him how to work.
Wanda Landowska
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You play Bach your way, and Ill play him his way.
Wanda Landowska
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Friendship is more important than truth.
Wanda Landowska
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Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.
Nadia Boulanger
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The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer.
Clara Schumann
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Send light to the dark hearts of men, that is the duty the artist.
Robert Schumann
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Sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't leaving being musician because I use to like it when noone came to see me playing, because I didn't feel any pressure. I can enjoy myself and probably play better. Sometimes when I play, people expect something of me, and I'm not always able to to that. Quite often. So I get totaly nervous
Allan Holdsworth
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I don't think about what other people expect or anything. I mean, I sit and worrying so much about what I'M thinking, I'd go NUTS if I sat around worrying about other people.
Allan Holdsworth
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My parents didn't really know one another.
Christopher Durang
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It depends on me whether life is good or not. Not on life, on me.
Alice Herz-Sommer
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