Great Music Education Quotes

#1. She ran for the only medicine that reliably cured any bout of unpleasant feelings: a book.

Dean Koontz

#2. Throughout my journey in basketball, I always have someone to talk to in my father. I know how hard he had to work as an athlete.

Joakim Noah

#3. I'm one extreme or the other. I'm not good at doing moderation.

Margot Robbie

#4. The purity of youth will usher in the Divine Wind.

Takijiro Onishi

#5. The world is in great need of more music education. When students play music, it allows a part of their artistic mind to express itself, which is very important in helping to balance a child intellectually, spiritually, and emotionally.

Paul Reed Smith

#6. A populist is someone who fights for common sense economic policies that sustain and expand the middle class.

Bruce Braley

#7. The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.

Willa Cather

#8. ... the only way to do that was to make the trouble she was causing seem unimportant. It was a good strategy, and I was failing at it.

C.D. Reiss

#9. So that's a fox?' Firepaw whispered. 'What an ugly muzzle!'
'You can say that again!' agreed Graypaw.
'I was following one of those when we first . . . met,' whispered Firepaw.
'More likely it was following you, you idiot!' hissed Graypaw.

Erin Hunter

#10. Life is a frail and transitory thing, but it has been given a higher purpose and dignity through the revelation of God's Teaching to Israel, and the resulting dedication of an entire people to God's service.

Joseph Hertz

#11. We love to learn because learning feels good. It both satisfies and stimulates curiosity. Reading a good book, having a meaningful conversation, listening to great music - just doing these things make us happy. They have no extrinsic purpose. To give them one takes away from their joy.

Zander Sherman

#12. The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

Aristotle.

#13. The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste your time with music that is trite or ignoble. Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Saharas of musical trash.

Sergei Rachmaninoff

#14. When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.

Willie Morris

#15. You have two choices, to conquer your fear or to let your fear conquer you.

Roy Bennett

#16. I place solitude in a frame on my desk and call it, the one I love.

Kelli Russell Agodon

#17. Those of us in medicine don't help, for we often regard the patient on the downhill as uninteresting unless he or she has a discrete problem we can fix.

Atul Gawande

#18. It meant a lot of driving through nothingness, and sometimes all that prickled the radio dial were low-wattage religious broadcasts: preachers who thought the aliens were Jesus coming home, or that they carried the wrath of God in their round ships' bellies.

Sean Platt