Look At It This Way

Music is my higher power. - Oliver James

Genius is sorrow's child. - John Adams

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

Love is a friendship set to music. - Joseph Campbell

I view art as an inspirational tool. - Thomas Kincade

Time is a game played beautifully by children. - Heraclitus

The most beautiful view is the one I share with you. - Unknown

Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose. - Steven Wright

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes. - Gustav Mahler

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. - Pearl S. Buck

The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith. - Andy Williams

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song. - Louis Armstrong

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. - Sydney Smith

We have to make our inspiration first before our inspiration can build us. - Sanjive K Sharma

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. - Robert Benchley

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine

The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation. - James E Faust

As a child, my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. - Buddy Hackett

Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective. - Paul Anka

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings. - Hodding S. Carter

I think those neighborhood signs that say 'slow children playing' are so very mean. - Zach Galifianakis

If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up. - Anna Akhmatova

Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. - Sydney Smith

It's easier to build up a child than it is to repair an adult. Choose your words wisely. - Unknown

The most precious jewels you'll ever have around your neck are the arms of your children. - Unknown

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. - Elton John

First of all you’ve got to have talent. And then you've got to marry her like I did. - George Burns

Willingness to be puzzled is a valuable trait to cultivate, from childhood to advanced inquiry. - Noam Chomsky

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. - Wanda Landowska

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. - Erica Jong

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. - Margaret Atwood

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. - Elizabeth Stone

Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day. - George Foreman

The best time to give advice to your children is while they're still young enough to believe you know what you're talking about. - Evan Esar

Life is a child playing around your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden. - Jean Anouilh

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, makes me feel like music. - Lauren Oliver

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them. - Plato

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt