Strategy Insights: Music Quotes for Lesson Warm-ups
- Main Concept: Utilizing thematic musical quotes to drive initial student discussion and engagement.
- Key Framework: A curated top-ten selection of philosophical and artistic quotes to activate prior knowledge before song-based tasks.
- Teacher Benefit: Provides a structured framework to activate student schema and initiate thematic discussion before beginning formal linguistic tasks.
- Practical Application: Integrating quotes from figures like Plato, Nietzsche, and Bono to drive introductory discussion and thematic prediction.
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Here are Song Activity Factory’s Top Ten Music Quotes for WARM-UPS!
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“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.”
Plato
9
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
Aldous Huxley
8
“One good thing about music is when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
Bob Marley
7
“Where words fail, music speaks.”
Hans Christian Andersen
6
“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”
Leopold Stokowski
5
“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
Lao Tzu
4
“Music can change the world because it can change people.
Bono
3
“Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.”
Benjamin Disraeli
2
“To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?”
Michael Jackson
1
“Without music, life would be a mistake”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Which one is your favorite? That’s it for this week!
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