All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents.”
– John F. Kennedy
“If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don’t practice for three days, the public knows it.”
– Louis Armstrong
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
– Bob Marley
“I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.”
– Ray Charles
“I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.”
– Elvis Presley
“Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.”
– Martin Kuther King Jr.
“Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.”
– Paul Simon
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
– Walt Disney
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
– Aristotle
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do
not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we
rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are
what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a
habit.”
– Aristotle
Man, if you have to ask what it is, you’ll never know.
– Louis Armstrong
“You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.”
– John Coltrane
“I’ll play with it first and tell you what it is later.”
– Miles Davis
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once
he grows up.”
– Pablo Picasso
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
– E. E. Cummings
“It takes one a long time to become young.”
– Pablo Picasso
“It’s a magical world, Hobbes, Ol’ Buddy…let’s go exploring!”
– Calvin’s last words,12/31/95 (Calvin & Hobbes)
“Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So… get on your way.”
– Dr. Seuss
“Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you.”
– Thomas Jefferson to his daughter Martha