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.

  Ernst Bacon

  Art, Book, Phases

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

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• Dancing is the body made poetic.

  Ernst Bacon

  Dance, Dancing, Ballet

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

  Ernst Bacon

  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.

  Ernst Bacon

  Men

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

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

  Ernst Bacon

  Teacher, Lessons, Limits

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

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