Music Education Quotes

• Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

  Plato

  Music, Republic, Art Education

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• One of the most beautiful things we can give our child is music education.

  Gloria Estefan

  Beautiful, Children, Giving

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• If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.

  Shinichi Suzuki

  Beautiful, Children, Heart

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• Music education can help spark a child's imagination or ignite a lifetime of passion. When you provide a child with new worlds to explore and challenges to tackle, the possibilities are endless. Music education should not be a privilege for a lucky few, it should be a part of every child's world of possiblity.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Passion, Imagination

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• The world is in great need of more music education. When students play music, it allows a part of their artistic mind to express itself, which is very important in helping to balance a child intellectually, spiritually, and emotionally.

  Paul Reed Smith

  Children, Play, Mind

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• Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Sound And Music, Musical Life

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• Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them - a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Children, School, Carpe Diem

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• Music is about communication, creativity, and cooperation, and by studying music in schools, students have the opportunity to build on these skills, enrich their lives, and experience the world from a new perspective.

  William J. Clinton

  Communication, Creativity, School

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  If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Music, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.12, St. Martin's Press

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• Where words fail, music speaks.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Inspirational, Music, Art

  Hans Christian Andersen (1876). “Stories for the Young”

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• Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.

  Martin Luther

  School, Carpe Diem, Skills

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  Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

  Plato

  Music, Plato, Soul

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• Music can change the world.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Peace, World

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• Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Music can change the world because it can change people.

  Bono

  Inspirational, Change, Music

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• The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Education, Children, Art And Music

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• Music gives a soul to the universe.

  Plato

  Music, Wings, Giving

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• Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it

  Plato

  Soul, Musical, Way

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• The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college.

  Arne Duncan

  Art, College, Odds

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• Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Wisdom, Art

  Victor Hugo (2016). “William Shakespeare”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

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  I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

  Ray Charles

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Music

  Ray Charles (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”

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• The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.

  Barack Obama

  Education, Carpe Diem, People

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  I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

  Billy Joel

  Inspirational, Motivational, Music

  FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Aug 19, 2013

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• I have a greater goal - to empower young people through music education.

  Ruben Studdard

  People, Goal, Empowering

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• If music be the food of love, play on.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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