Beautiful Quotations

Music is too great a gift to leave only to those few shining stars who are so motivated to practice and achieve that they can’t be dragged off the piano.  Music, especially classical music, has been such an enriching experience, such a source of joy and solace in hard times.  
How could I not give this gift to my children?  

-Patty Fifield

Music is “feelingful” intelligence.  It is holistic thinking with a punch.  No other part of the curriculum can duplicate this unique and powerful way of knowing.

          Throughout history, wherever humans have confronted the ultimate questions of life and death, they have turned to the arts for expression.  
Some cultures have been found to exist without reading and writing, but not one has been found without the arts.

  -Gloria J. Kiester

In a world of political, economic, and personal disintegration, music is not a luxury but a necessity, not simply because it is ‘therapeutic’, but because it is the persistent focus of man’s intelligence, aspirations, and good-will.

-Robert Shaw

It is easier to understand a nation by listening to its music than by learning its language.

Anonymous

Music is one of the most forceful instruments for governing the mind and spirit of man.
-Plato

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and is that which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.  
-Napoleon Bonaparte

               Music is the universal language of mankind.  

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If we want our world to be still, gray, and silent, then we should keep the arts out of school, shut down the neighborhood theaters, barricade the museum doors.  When we let the arts into the arena of learning, we run the risk that color and motion and MUSIC will enter our lives.

-David Rockefeller

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners; she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

 -Martin Luther

Children will love those talents or possessions to which we encourage them to give time or effort.

Elder Marvin J. Ashton

The greatest duty and joy given to us adults is the privilege of developing our children’s potentialities and of educating desirable human beings with beautiful harmonious minds and high sensitivity.  I believe sensitivity and love toward music and art are very important things to all people whether they are politicians, scientists, businessmen or laborers.  They are the things that make our lives rich.

-Dr. Shinichi Suzuki

My aim in teaching...is to give children a sense of joy in experiencing one of the most beautiful and spiritually enriching things we have in the world, which is music.  I don’t wish to turn all of my students into professional musicians - but to use music to develop their sensitivity as human beings.  Music can open a child’s heart, and give him a finer appreciation of life.

-Dr. Shinichi Suzuki

We need more and better arts education to produce better educated human beings, citizens who will value and evolve a worthy American civilization.

-Charles Fowler

      I am a man first, an artist second.  As a man, my first obligation is to the welfare of my fellow men.  I will endeavor to meet this obligation through music - the means which God has given me - since it transcends language, politics and national boundaries.  My contribution to world peace may be small, but at least I will have given all I can to an ideal I hold sacred.

-Pablo Cassals

Music’s only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit.
-Johann Sebastian Bach

“An amateur practices

until he gets it right.

A professional

practices until he

cannot get it wrong.”

Norma McNamara