Louis Armstrong
“All music is folk music, I ain’t never heard no horse sing a song.”
Charlie Parker
“Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.”
Gustav Mahler
“Tradition is laziness.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“I shall seize Fate by the throat; it shall certainly not bend and crush me completely.”
Dmitri Shostakovich
“What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn’t laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to fight for the legitimate right of laughter in “serious” music.”
Robert Schumann
“To compose music, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of ”
Robert G. Ingersoll
“Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.”
Henry Ford
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are right.”
John Wooden
“Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
David Ahrens
“We need arts education because with the ubiquity and rush of technology, kids need lessons in being human.”
