Only art of intrinsic value is suitable for children Everything else is harmful.
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We put up the fancy spires first. When we saw that the whole edifice was shaky, we set to building the walls. We have still to make a cellar.
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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 whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time.
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Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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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.
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