Quotes of Inspiration
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
Victor Hugo
“Some people think music education is a privilege, but I think it’s essential to being human.”
Jewel
“With music, one’s while future life is brightened. This is such a treasure in life that it helps us over many troubles and difficulties. Music is nourishment, a comforting elixir. Music multiplies all that is beautiful and of value in life.”
Gerald Ford
“Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them - a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.”
Zoltan Kodaly
“Elemental music is never just music. It’s bound up with movement, dance, and speech, and so it is a form of music in which one must participate, in which one is involved not as a listener but as a co-performer.”
Carl Orff
“Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and feel. If we are to hope for a society of cullturally literate people, music must be a vital part of our children’s education.”
Yo-Yo Ma
“Art is fundamental, unique to each of us…Even in difficult economic times- especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.”
Maria Shriver
“If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline, and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.”
Shinichi Suzuki
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
Confucius