Monday Music Musing 15
Music is what feelings sound like. –Anonymous
Music is what feelings sound like. –Anonymous
The effects of good music are not just because it’s new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it. –Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Teaching music is not my main purpose. I want to make good citizens. If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart. –Shinichi Suzuki
Spring Break this week! No lessons March 21-23. Violinists, go practice outside. Pianists, at least try to play with the window open!!
I am mentally preparing myself for the five-year-old mind. I want to come down to their physical limitations and up to their …
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. –Leopold Stokowski
Don’t tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work. –Anton Rubenstein
The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master’s spell: And feeling hearts, touch them but …
Fozzie Bear (from The Muppet Show) performs a catchy song about how Beethoven used “eight little notes” to write his famous music–one …
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working. –Pablo Picasso (think about this when it comes to the connection between practicing …