Look At It This Way

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. - Alistair Cooke

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

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

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

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

Making music should not be left to the professionals. - Michelle Shocked

Your children need your presence more than your presents. - Jesse Jackson

Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated. - John Barbirolli

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them. - Lady Bird Johnson

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. - Elaine Heffner

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

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig van Beethoven

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

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. - Alphonse de Lamartine

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

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

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London

Children really brighten up a household. They never turn the lights off. - Ralph Bus

Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens. - Maria Augusta von Trapp

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. - Maya Angelou

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. - Victor Hugo

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. - Mary Kay Ash

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

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. - Thornton Wilder

Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity. - Kay R. Jamison

If you're going to write a book on how to raise children, do it before you have them. - Bob McLaren

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. - John Lennon

The only purpose for music should be the glory of God and the re-creation of the human spirit. - Johann Sebastian Bach

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next. - Franklin P. Jones

It's triple the Trump this season... I invited my children, Don Jr. and Ivanka into the boardroom. - Donald Trump

Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. - Maurice Chevalier

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. - Aldous Huxley

If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it; that surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. - William Shakespeare

There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender. - WC Fields

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. - George Lois

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

Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. - C S Lewis

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. - Albert Einstein

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil. - Victor Hugo