Look At It This Way

Adults are just outdated children. - Dr. Seuss

Having no talent is no longer enough. - Gore Vidal

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. - Norman R Augustine

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

The best thing to spend on your children is your time. - Louise Hart

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them. - Epictetus

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. - Unknown

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen. - August Rush

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. - Bruce Barton

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. - Frederick Douglass

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

Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy. - Dierks Bentley

Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize. - Napoleon Bonaparte

My metabolism stinks. I can gain weight just listening to dinner music. - Ron Dentinger

My children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced on television. - Erma Bombeck

Marriage requires a special talent like acting. Monogamy requires genius. - Warren Beatty

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. - William Feather

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

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? - Maurice Freehill

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. - Bo Bennett

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. - Aldous Huxley

Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever. - Unknown

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide. - Pat Conroy

It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view. - Dalai Lama

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

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. - Johann Sebastian Bach

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually. - Steven Wright

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

Children raced outside. She surveyed their trail - traces of sticky fingerprints across everything, like wee poems. - Dr. SunWolf

The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not a lack of talent. It's the lack of a deadline. - Chris Baty

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason; to always be curious; and to fight tirelessly for something. - Paulo Coelho

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives. - Rita Rudner

We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it. - Dorothy Height

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

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. - Phyllis Diller

When I was six, I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was Eminem. The old folk weren't expecting that. - Nico Mirallegro

Historically the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family. - Stephen Covey

If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says, 'keep away from children.' - Susan Savannah