QUOTE OF THE DAY: WEEK #17 Semester #2

DATE: MONDAY WEEK 17 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Plato
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Music can highlight everything you do in life.”
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DATE: TUESDAY WEEK 17 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Aldous Huxley
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Silence, an element of music, is often a more powerful expression than words."
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DATE: WEDNESDAY WEEK 17 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Charlie Parker
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“A lot of who you are is due in part to your life’s experiences. Emotions that emanate from those experiences will come out uniquely in the creation of music.”
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DATE: THURSDAY WEEK 17 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Igor Stravinsky
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Music is a way that man has emotionally recorded his history throughout time.”
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DATE: FRIDAY WEEK 17 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Oscar Hammerstein
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"All the sounds on the earth are like music."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Music is all around us; the wind, ocean pulse, and from the birds that sing….if you only listen for it.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: WEEK #16 Semester #2

DATE: MONDAY WEEK 16 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Martha Graham
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"No artist is pleased...there is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“An artist is never satisfied with his/her art. The pleasure the artists gets is in the act of striving for the perfection that will never be realized.”
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DATE: TUESDAY WEEK 16 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Henry Van Dyke
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“A person does not have to be a professional musician in order to experience the joys of making music.”
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DATE: WEDNESDAY WEEK 16 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: T. S. Eliot
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"You are the music while the music lasts."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“While listening to music you can escape the realities of life and create your own universe.”
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DATE: THURSDAY WEEK 16 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Victor Hugo
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Feelings can be communicated through music in a way that words can never express."
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DATE: FRIDAY WEEK 16 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Robert Rauschenberg
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“An artists creates art as a response to what he/she experiences during the course of a lifetime.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: WEEK #15 Semester #2

DATE: MONDAY WEEK 15 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Rita Mae Brown
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Music is to the soul as food is to the body."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“You need food to nourish your body and music to feed your soul."
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DATE: TUESDAY WEEK 15 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Music is the universal language of mankind."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Music is a form of communication that everyone can understand.”
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DATE: WEDNESDAY WEEK 15 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Author Unknown
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Play the music, not the instrument."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“An instrument is just the mechanism for the music inside you.”
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DATE: THURSDAY WEEK 15 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Oliver Wendell Holmes
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Alas, for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!"
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“It is sad when a person has no musical outlet for their emotions.”
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DATE: FRIDAY WEEK 15 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Robert Schumann
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"The painter turns a poem into a painting; the musician sets a picture to music."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“All the arts interweave each other: words can be made into art and music; art can be imitated by music.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: WEEK #14 Semester #2

DATE: MONDAY, WEEK 14 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: George Jellinek
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"The history of a people is found in its songs."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"Man leaves behind his history through art.”
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DATE: TUESDAY, WEEK 14 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Ernest Boyer
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Music incorporates all the elements of life into one medium.”
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, WEEK 14 SEMESTER #1
AUTHOR: Red Auerbach
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“When you listen to music your troubles often tend to disappear.”
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DATE: THURSDAY, WEEK 14 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Katie Greenwood
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Music isn't just learning notes and playing them, you learn notes to play to the music of your soul."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"There is no music in notes alone. It is the human, emotional element that makes notes into music.”
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DATE: FRIDAY, WEEK 14 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: W.H.Auden
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"You do not need to think all the time to enjoy music; you can just enjoy the feelings.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: WEEK #13 Semester #2

DATE: MONDAY WEEK 13 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Igor Stravinsky
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Wisdom and knowledge are developed through lessons learned from making mistakes.”
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DATE: TUESDAY WEEK 13 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Ludwig Van Beethoven
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.”MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Good art will outlast the generations and continue to be popular.”
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DATE: WEDNESDAY WEEK 13 SEMESTER #1
AUTHOR: Max Lerner
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Peace will only happen when man learns to accept the differences of others and come together as one.” 
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DATE: THURSDAY WEEK 13 SEMESTER #1
AUTHOR: Robert Schumann
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“No single person becomes successful on their own; it takes the support of others.”
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DATE: FRIDAY WEEK 13 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Hector Berlioz
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.”MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Artistic inspiration is fleeting (passing quickly) and unexpected.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY WEEK #12 Semester #2

DATE: MONDAY WEEK 12 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Richard Wagner
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy-imagination that creates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality. ”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"Creativity starts first in your imagination."
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DATE: TUESDAY WEEK 12 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Giacomo Puccini
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“Art is a kind of illness.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“A true artist is addicted to his art.”
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DATE: WEDNESDAY WEEK 12 SEMESTER #1
AUTHOR: Gioacchino Rossini
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Do not let critics stop you from creating your art. Ignore their negative comments if the comments are not constructive ones.”
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DATE: THURSDAY WEEK 12 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Franz Schubert
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Our emotions come out in our music. Many of these emotions are closely related.”
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DATE: FRIDAY WEEK 12 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Edgard Varese
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Sometimes artists create art which is not understood by the general public.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: WEEK #11 Semester #2

DATE: MONDAY WEEK 11 SEMESTER #2

AUTHOR: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humor will stimulate a like humor in the listener.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“If the composer does not feel the music inside himself first he can not convey those feelings to the audience through his music.”
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DATE: TUESDAY WEEK 11 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Dave Brubeck
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“It takes a lifetime just to start understanding yourself.”
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DATE: WEDNESDAY WEEK 11 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: John Cage
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen, then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Repetition helps to create interest. The more you are acquainted with a subject the more you are apt to enjoy it.”
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DATE: THURSDAY WEEK 11 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Oscar Levant
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“It's not what you are, but what you don't become that hurts.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Not working up to and using your abilities to their fullest potential will stop you from feeling content with your progress.”
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DATE: FRIDAY WEEK 11 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Giuseppe Verdi
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"I adore art...when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bare. ”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“The emotion and joy felt from the act of creating art is totally fulfilling.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY-WEEK #10 Semester #2

DATE: MONDAY WEEK 10 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Leonard Bernstein
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“Any great work of art... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“A great piece of music can transport your imagination back in time, ahead in the future, make you laugh or cry, and send you to exotic places.”
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DATE: TUESDAY WEEK 10 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Irving Berlin
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“Talent is only the starting point.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Talent will only be of use if you combine it with hard work and effort.”
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DATE: WEDNESDAY WEEK 10 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Robert Schumann
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"The history of music, supported by the actual hearing of the master compositions of the different epochs, is the shortest way to cure you of self-esteem and vanity. ”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE: 
“A person may think their art is great until they compare it with the greatest masters such as Beethoven and Mozart.”
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DATE: THURSDAY WEEK 10 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Ludwig van Beethoven
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“The greatest happiness one can give himself is the joy of making other people happy.”
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DATE: FRIDAY WEEK 10 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Frederic Chopin
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“The easier something looks to produce, the harder it is to achieve in actuality. When you are good at something you make it look easy.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY-WEEK #09 Semester #2

DATE: MONDAY WEEK 09 SEMESTER #2

AUTHOR: Nadia Boulanger

QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“The greatest gift of love you can give a child is to teach him/her how to love the challenge of achieving personal goals.”
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DATE: TUESDAY WEEK 09 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Ludwig van Beethoven
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Great art can only be determined by each individual’s personal opinion.”
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DATE: WEDNESDAY WEEK 09 SEMESTER #2

AUTHOR: Robert Schumann
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Art is created to make a better world.”
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DATE: THURSDAY WEEK 09 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Frank Zappa
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Many people don’t listen to music; they just hear it.”
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DATE: FRIDAY WEEK 09 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Ludwig van Beethoven
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Beethoven thinks he is unique, better than others. Through arrogant, his ego helped him produce beautiful music."
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QUOTE OF THE DAY WEEK #08 Semester #2

DATE: MONDAY WEEK #08 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Igor Stravinsky
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“The secret to writing a good piece of music is not to make it too short or too long. Timing is everything.”
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DATE: TUESDAY WEEK #08 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“What comprises good performance? It is the ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true
content and affect of a composition.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“A good performance gets the audience to feel something deep inside.”
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DATE: WEDNESDAY WEEK #08 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Ludwig van Beethoven
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“A person will judge him/her self more critically than anyone else.”
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DATE: THURSDAY WEEK #08 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Irving Berlin
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“What you feel inside will control your entire life on the outside.”
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DATE: FRIDAY WEEK #08 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Leonard Bernstein
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Artists devote their lives to the creation of beauty for the rest of us to enjoy.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY-WEEK #07 Semester #2

DATE: MONDAY WEEK 07 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Irving Berlin
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“It is easier to attain success than to keep it because no one wants to go backwards once they have been on top.”
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DATE: TUESDAY WEEK 07 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Leonard Bernstein
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“I’m not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Music should sound as each individual composer meant it to be played. The same orchestra can play music by different composers and the music will sound different each time.”
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DATE: WEDNESDAY WEEK 07 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Robert Schumann
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“People create art for varied reasons. For everyone the reason is different.”
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DATE: THURSDAY WEEK 07 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Frederick Chopin
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Chopin believes that music is not just entertainment, it must have some inner message to convey.”
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DATE: FRIDAY WEEK 07 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Max Lerner
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“An artist must be open to all ideas and styles of music to achieve career success in a country where people have the freedom to choose any music they like.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY-WEEK #06 Semester #2

DATE: MONDAY WEEK 06 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Robert Schumann
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“No one person is successful without a team behind him.”
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DATE: TUESDAY WEEK 06 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: George Crumb
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“An American or Europeon can composer, for example, now has access to the music of various Asian, African, and South American cultures.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Because of mass communication, composers know more about music from other cultures for which they can incorporate into their own music.”
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DATE: WEDNESDAY WEEK 06 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Frederick Delius
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“Music is an outburst of the soul.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"Music is not just organized sound, it is an expression of the human condition.”
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DATE: THURSDAY WEEK 06 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Ludwig van Beethoven
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“If you cant live with yourself because you act in a way contrary to your ethics all the money in the world will not make you happy.”
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DATE: FRIDAY WEEK 06 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Oscar Hammerstein II
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“It's a very ancient saying, but a true and honest thought, that if you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“An intelligent person knows that you can always learn something from every situation and people you meet.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY-WEEK #05 Semester #2

DATE: MONDAY WEEK 05 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Sergei Prokofiev
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“Of course I have used dissonance in my time, but there has been too much dissonance. Bach used dissonance as good salt for his music. Others applied pepper, seasoned the dishes more and more highly, till all healthy appetites were sick and until the music was nothing but pepper.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"Dissonance in music (different sounds that do not blend pleasantly together) should be used like spices are used in food; overuse will spoil the product."
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DATE: TUESDAY WEEK 05 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Gioacchino Rossini
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"Many people think that music they don’t like is boring but….what is boring to one might be interesting to another.”
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DATE: WEDNESDAY WEEK 05 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: John Philip Sousa
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“The style of jazz is meant to be felt through movement; that is what attracts people to it.”
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DATE: THURSDAY WEEK 05 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Igor Stravinsky
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“A good composer does not imitate; he steals.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“There are no new ideas only old ones which are combined to form new combinations. The better composers study the music of many others giving them a larger selection of ideas to use.”
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DATE: FRIDAY WEEK 05 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Nadia Boulanger
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“To study music we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“You should not break music rules accidentally; only break them deliberately for artistic reasons.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY-WEEK #04 Semester #2

DATE: MONDAY WEEK 04 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Edgard Varese
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“We all have a special talent at something but most people don’t spend the time exploring it."
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DATE: TUESDAY WEEK 04 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Igor Stravinsky
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Listening and hearting are not the same. Anyone with healthy ears can hear. It takes brains to listen."
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DATE: WEDNESDAY WEEK 04 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Stephen Sondheim
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“No art is created perfectly the first time.”
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DATE: THURSDAY WEEK 04 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Robert Schumann
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Art starts out in the artists soul inwardly. The art can not be expressed outwardly without the willingness of the artist to work hard."
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DATE: FRIDAY WEEK 04 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Gian Carlo Menotti
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“A smart person knows he/she does not know everything …. That there is always more to learn.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY-WEEK #03 Semester #2

DATE: MONDAY WEEK 03 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: John Cage
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“To continue to grow as a human being you must be open to try new ideas otherwise you stagnate.”
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DATE: TUESDAY WEEK 03 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Jascha Heifetz
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“There is always a way to improve yourself.”
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DATE: WEDNESDAY WEEK 03 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Nadia Boulanger
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“A true musician must be willing to give up everything for his art"
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DATE: THURSDAY WEEK 03 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Zoltan Kodaly
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“No man is complete without a feeling for music and an understanding of what it can do for him.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Complete fulfillment in life is not possible unless you have some music appreciation.”
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DATE: FRIDAY WEEK 03 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Frank Zappa
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"The vibrations that emanate from music create a sound from air as an artist creates a sculpture from a rock."
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QUOTE OF THE DAY-WEEK #02 Semester #2

DATE: MONDAY WEEK 02 SEMESTER #1
AUTHOR: Frederick Delius
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Its more fun to create something yourself then to create something yourself then to have someone else create it for you.”
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DATE: TUESDAY WEEK 02 SEMESTER #1
AUTHOR: Leonard Bernstein
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"When you are angry its not the answer. Get your emotions out with your music instead.”
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DATE: WEDNESDAY WEEK 02 SEMESTER #1
AUTHOR: Irving Berlin
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“Talent is only the starting point.”MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"Talent means nothing without a good work ethic and a good attitude.”
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DATE: THURSDAY WEEK 02 SEMESTER #1
AUTHOR: Johann Sebastian Bach
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Music is used for some people as a symbol of status or a way to be popular and for them has little to do with the art itself.”
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DATE: FRIDAY WEEK 02 SEMESTER #1
AUTHOR: Ludwig van Beethoven
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Some artists can never rest until they are allowed to express themselves.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY-WEEK #01 Semester #2

PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL QUOTES THIS WEEK WILL BE WORTH EXTRA CREDIT POINTS ONLY (1 POINT PER COMPLETED QUOTE) AS IT IS OUR FIRST WEEK. NEXT WEEK QUOTES WILL COUNT FOR GRADES: 1 POINT PER REQUIRED QUOTE.


DATE: MONDAY WEEK 01 QUARTER #1
AUTHOR: John Cage
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Pushing yourself to do things others say can not be done takes determination and shows strength of character.”
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DATE: TUESDAY WEEK 01 QUARTER #1
AUTHOR: Felix Mendelssohn
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“Think more of your own progress than of the opinion of others.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“In the end, what only matters is what you think of yourself.”
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DATE: WEDNESDAY WEEK 01 QUARTER #1
AUTHOR: Paul Hindemith
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“Music is meaningless noise, until it touches a receiving mind.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Art only has meaning for those who bother to spend the time to really think about what the artist is trying to convey.”
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DATE: THURSDAY WEEK 01 QUARTER #1
AUTHOR: Richard Wagner
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“The audience rarely knows of all the time and effort that goes into the production of an art form.”
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DATE: FRIDAY WEEK 01 QUARTER #1
AUTHOR: Igor Stravinsky
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Music is a way of recording the history, culture, and emotions of people throughout time.”
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