Look At It This Way

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

Never have children, only grandchildren. - Gore Vidal

It's never too late for a happy childhood. - Gloria Steinem

Music is spiritual. The music business is not. - Van Morrison

Persistence trumps talent and looks every time. - Aaron Brown

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

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. - Igor Stravinsky

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

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

You just pick a chord, go twang, and you've got music. - Sid Vicious

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

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

Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things. - Epictetus

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. - Dudley Moore

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. - Joseph Addison

Every child needs a father. Even if he turns out to be Darth Vader. - Jackson Radcliffe

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

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. - William Stafford

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

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. - Ron Wild

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

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso

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

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father. - Pope John XXIII

Grandchildren are God's rewards to grandparents for not shooting their children. - Unknown

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. - Clarence Darrow

People always ask me, "Were you funny as a child?" Well, no, I was an accountant. - Ellen DeGeneres

It's not that age brings childhood back again. Age merely shows what children we remain. - Goethe

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you. - H. Jackson Brown

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. - Fran Lebowitz

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

I've enjoyed many camping holidays with my sister and her children, but we're pretty posh campers. - Erin O'Connor

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?' - Christopher Meloni

Tarry a moment to watch the chaos of a playground, crayola-colored shirts of running children, all trying out their wings. - Dr. SunWolf

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. - Johann Gottfried Von Herder

Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking and writing. - Isaac B Singer

It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to squeeze in eight hours of TV a day. - Homer Simpson

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

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

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. - Ann Landers