"The senses are not adequately provided for in our schools; that is why so few people are artistic. Art is not a domain accessible only to an `elite`.

It is within easy reach of all those who are capable of co-ordinating their senses, by reference to an ideal of beauty and harmony."
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze

 


"Piano lessons, unless preceded by training of the ear and by rhythmic movements, frequently damage the aural and rhythmic faculties. The sense of touch develops to the detriment of the hearing."
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze

"Sometimes mistakes are the best thing that can happen, because they might lift you... out of your comlacency, and open your mind up to a whole other area that you wouldn't have gone to intentionally."
Bobby McFerrin

"The aim of education is to transmute the conscious into the unconscious, and to establish harmony between these two states."
Robot

"Die Fehler zu zählen, können Sie den Dummen überlassen."
Pablo Casals

„The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.“
Alfred Brendel