“After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.”
— Oscar Wilde
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“Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over.”
— Elvis Presley
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“In order to communicate to a young person the essence of the problem of performance, of projecting a musical work, it is not sufficient simply to say to the young person, this is the way it goes. Do likewise. Imitation is an obsolete method of teaching.”
— Irwin Freundlich
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“Works of art make rules, but rules do not make works of art.”
— Claude Debussy
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“Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.”
— Franz Joseph Haydn
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“Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.“
— Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
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“Of all the arts, great music is the art to raise the soul above all earthly storms.”
— Charles Godfrey Leland
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“I compose music as a tree produces apples.”
— Camille Saint-Saens
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“What the English like is something that they can beat time to, something that hits them straight on the drum of the ear.”
– George Frederic Handel
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“Remember that technique is valuable only as a means to an end. You must first have something to say–something which demands expression from the depths of your soul. If you feel deeply and know how to express what you feel, you make others feel.”
— Amy Cheney Beach (1867-1944)
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“School curricula that ignore the arts produce ‘highly educated Barbarians.'”
— Edward Albee, playwright
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“Some people think music education is a privilege, but I think it’s essential to being human.”
— Jewel
(Thanks to Mykal for sending in this quote!)
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