Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to say in any other language. If we do not want these things to remain dead treasures, we must do our utmost to make the greatest possible number of people understand their idiom.
Zoltan KodalySinging connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.
Zoltan KodalyMusic is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to say in any other language. If we do not want these things to remain dead treasures, we must do our utmost to make the greatest possible number of people understand their idiom.
Zoltan KodalyThere is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music.
Zoltan Kodaly