"I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time."

 - Kodaly

"Elemental music implies a genre of music that is drawn from the basic elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and form.

It is music stripped of intellectual complexities, closely related to speech and movement, and draws its inspirations from those human impulses that are common to all people." 

- Calantropio (Orff)