Look At It This Way

All children are essentially criminal. - Denis Diderot

Inspiration and genius - one and the same. - Victor Hugo

Persistence trumps talent and looks every time. - Aaron Brown

You can't touch music, but music can touch you. - Mordecai

Inspiration fires you up; motivation keeps you burning. - Stuart Aken

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

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open. - Harry Edwards

Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Classical music is music written by famous dead foreigners. - Arlene Heath

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

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. - Luciano Pavarotti

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. - Groucho Marx

Children are one third of our population and all of our future. - Unknown

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

Talent is no match for hard work, determination, and perseverance. - Unknown

Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist. - Austin O'Malley

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. - Oscar Wilde

I have very good executives and great children. They're very good. - Donald Trump

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. - Elvis Presley

A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children. - David Brenner

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. - John Kenneth Galbraith

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. - Groucho Marx

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence. - Art Linkletter

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. - Unknown

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. - Frank Capra

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. - Florida Scott-Maxwell

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It is simply my life, music. I live it, breathe it, talk with it. I am almost unconscious of it. - Arthur Rubinstein

When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take ‘em. - Bernie Mac

Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough. - Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe. - Marian Wright Edelman

Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. - Frank Zappa

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. - Edgar W. Howe

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. - Henry David Thoreau

Education commences on the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. - Hosea Ballou

If you never want to see a man again, just tell him, "I love you. I want to marry you. I want to have children." They leave skid marks. - Rita Rudner

Most of what we object to as misconduct in children is a natural rebellion against the intrusion of an unimaginative adult despotism in their lives. - Floyd Dell

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