Look At It This Way

Originality is undetected plagiarism. - William Inge

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. - Noel Coward

Music is a means of rapid transportation. - John Cage

In television blood is thicker than talent. - Gerald F Lieberman

Few maxims are true from every point of view. - Marquis de Lac de Clapiers Vauvenargue

I hate music - especially when it's played. - Jimmy Durante

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence. - Dido Armstrong

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Elvis Costello

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. - Samuel Johnson

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. - Charles Baudelaire

Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad. - WC Fields

Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children. - Walt Disney

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it. - Sting

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. - Kin Hubbard

I'm contributing to the, waddya call, on the loosincy of a child. - Archie Bunker

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. - Pablo Casals

Don't focus on regrets; find your inspiration in what you can do now. - Catherine Pulsifer

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

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

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

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

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

Don't worry that your children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. - Robert Fulghum

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. - Phyllis Diller

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. - Oscar Wilde

During World War II children were not allowed to trick or treat because there was a sugar shortage. - Linda Bozzo

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

Boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. - Jack Handey

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. - Plato

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

What sounds to you like a big load of trashy noise... is in fact... the brilliant music of a genius... myself. - Iggy Pop

Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see life with a clearer view again. - Alex Tan

Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them. - Joyce Maynard

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. - Charlie Parker

I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up. - Will Rogers

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

When I know that, if I have no inspiration whatsoever, when I come and I just feel empty, I have nothing, I know that I can still play the scene. - Christopher Walken

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. - Bill Vaughan

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