Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Ernst Bacon

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American composer Ernst Bacon.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Ernst Bacon

Ernst Lecher Bacon was an American composer, pianist, and conductor. A prolific author, Bacon composed over 250 songs over his career. He was awarded three Guggenheim Fellowships and a Pulitzer Scholarship in 1932 for his Second Symphony.

A man in music, as one in love, either lives it or talks about it; seldom both.
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.
A teacher's hardest lesson is to limit his explanation to the minimum. — © Ernst Bacon
A teacher's hardest lesson is to limit his explanation to the minimum.
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.
Dancing is the body made poetic.
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