Look At It This Way

Talent is only a starting point. - Irving Berlin

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

Without music, life would be a mistake. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In music the passions enjoy themselves. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Children make you want to start life over. - Muhammad Ali

Snoring: 1. Sheet music; 2. Sound sleeping. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

I like your opera. I think I will set it to music. - Ludwig van Beethoven

The worst children are always somebody else's. - Unknown

My music is best understood by children and animals. - Igor Stravinsky

The best way to make children is to make them happy. - Oscar Wilde

Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. - Robert Browning

What's done to children, they will do to society. - Karl A Menninger

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things. - G K Chesterton

Music - what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon! - Maria Augusta von Trapp

A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view. - Wilma Askinas

The sweetest music in the world to every person is his own name. - Unknown

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. - Fran Lebowitz

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. - George Bernard Shaw

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Nature Lover: A person who, when treed by a bear, enjoys the view - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Bricks may make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home. - Irish Proverb

Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard. - Margaret C Banning

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well. - Henry W. Longfellow

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. - Confucius

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. - Thornton Wilder

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages. - Mark Twain

Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse. - Jimmy Fallon

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. - Plato

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. - Stacia Tauscher

Just as Jesus created wine from water, we humans are capable of transmuting emotion into music. - Carlos Santana

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. - Phyllis Diller

If this world is going to be reached, I am convinced that it must be done by men and women of average talent. - Dwight L. Moody

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. - Robert Frost

Life's golden age is when the children are too old to need babysitters and too young to borrow the family car. - Unknown

I don't run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent. - Gordon Ramsay

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. - Stephen King

He adopted a role called being a father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a protector. - Tom Wolfe

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. - Antoine de Saint-Expurey

Just be good and kind to your children. Not only are they the future of the world, they're the ones who can sign you into the nursing home. - Dennis Miller