Zoltan Kodaly Quotes
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
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
Gary Player -
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso -
I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
Tamra Davis -
By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
Adam Grant -
The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
Sally Mann
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
Adam Carolla -
We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
R. Lee Ermey -
Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
Usain Bolt -
I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
Nancy Lublin -
If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
Candice Swanepoel -
I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.
L'Wren Scott
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If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky.
Eberhard Weber -
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
Walter Scott -
We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.
Patrick deWitt -
I'm a normal guy.
Jack Ma -
Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter.
Hadewijch -
I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.
Rafael dos Anjos -
The empathy I found reading 'Heidi' and 'Little Women' is empathy we have as human beings that can feed all of our souls. We have our differences, but we're all so similar in our humanness. So those stories about young girls overcoming meant a lot to me and gave me hope.
Jewell Parker Rhodes -
My parents are high school sweethearts.
Becky G -
At that point Ms Fox came in and said, "Hello, carry on as if I am not here." Then she lay down on the floor.
Louise Rennison -
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