Ernst Bacon Quotes

• I would rather instill in my amateur students love, than knowledge, of music. Left with only knowledge, they will at the end close their books and consign the course to forgetfulness. But if they have learned to love but the smallest part of the art, they are likely to pursue some phase of it the rest of their lives.

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  Art   Book   Phases  

  Ernst Bacon (2013). “Notes on the Piano”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• The Artist should not forget his mission, perhaps the most religious of all, of sustaining faith in the worthwhileness of art and thus of life.

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  Religious   Art   Forget  

  Ernst Bacon, Sara Davis Buechner (2011). “Notes on the Piano”, p.117, Courier Corporation

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• A man in music, as one in love, either lives it or talks about it; seldom both.

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  Men  

  Ernst Bacon, Sara Davis Buechner (2011). “Notes on the Piano”, p.157, Courier Corporation

  1970

• Dancing is the body made poetic.

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  Dance   Dancing   Ballet  

  Ernst Bacon (2013). “Notes on the Piano”, p.151, Courier Corporation

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• A teacher's hardest lesson is to limit his explanation to the minimum.

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  Teacher   Lessons   Limits  

  Ernst Bacon, Sara Davis Buechner (2011). “Notes on the Piano”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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