It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learned to live with music more worthily. Whoever works to promote this end,…

- Zoltan Kodaly

With music, one's whole future life is brightened. This is such a treasure in life that it helps us over many troubles and difficulties. Music is nou…

- Zoltan Kodaly

The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same

- Zoltan Kodaly

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

- Zoltan Kodaly

Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.

- Zoltan Kodaly

Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.

- Zoltan Kodaly

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

- Zoltan Kodaly

Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to say in …

- Zoltan Kodaly

I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whethe…

- Zoltan Kodaly