Zoltan Kodaly

There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music.

Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.

Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save us from this fate.

Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.

Often a single experience will open the young soul to music for a whole lifetime

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.