Music Advocacy Quotes

#1. Rule #1: No cut or compromise should be suggested by ANY member of the community. This includes the music coalition, music educators, and the music supervisor.
Suggest a cut or compromise, and you become responsible for the decision.

John Benham

#2. There was no point in stealing well or wisely if the loot couldn't be stashed somewhere safe.

Scott Lynch

#3. To improve our conditions we must first improve ourselves.

Charles F. Haanel

#4. Remember what we've been through. Remember what we came here for.

Leigh Bardugo

#5. I've always been attracted to characters with insurmountable odds and obstacles, because innately, however inarticulately I've always believed that my dreams and my desires can command and bend time and space to be the things that I want them to be.

Will Smith

#6. At 14 I discovered girls. At that time dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship.

Gene Kelly

#7. Are the grapes bitter or sweet? You have to taste.

Marty Rubin

#8. Well, we decided to have a bite, so I sent Nobby out to the baker's, see, and, well, we fought the prisoner ought to have something to eat . . .' 'Yes?' said Vimes encouragingly. 'Well, when Nobby asked him if he wanted his figgin toasted, he just give a scream and ran off.

Terry Pratchett

#9. The key to becoming a proactive influence for music education is the development of a "dream list." It is more often referred to as a long-term plan. Do you know what you want your program to look like in the next five years? Ten years? Start now!

John Benham

#10. The rule of the Morrell family was over, and Richard owned a used-car lot and Monica worked at a nail salon, until one day she got run over by a bus. Very sad.

Rachel Caine

#11. When we compare ourselves to engineers or architects, we are in danger of doing everyone a disservice.

Sam Newman

#12. And for a split second I find her, silhouetted by the sky, arms outstretched like she's making snow angels in the air or simply laughing, turning in place; for a split second, she comes to me as the clouds, the sun, the wind touching my face and telling me that somehow, someday, it will be okay.

Lauren Oliver

#13. Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.

Novak Djokovic

#14. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, and timid policies offer a path to safety.

Winston Churchill

#15. Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.

Paula Cole

#16. It seems like people my age are over-protected today, even to the point where a lot of parents refuse to put their kids in the position to make important decisions, to aspire to great things, because they don't want to put them in a position to fail.

Abby Sunderland

#17. I think being really connected to a higher power, of having a spirituality to me, has been really good for me and I pray all the time.

Alicia Keys