Why Learn to Play Music?  Click on the link below for current facts on how music education can enhance your life.

http://www.supportmusic.com/SMBrochure_eng.pdf

Advocacy Essentials from the Kennedy Center:

http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/connect/aes.cfm

Quotes:

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

-Victor Hugo

Love is like a violin.  The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.

-Anonymous

Don't play what's there; play what's not there.

-Miles Davis

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

-Leonard Bernstein

Music washes away from the soul the dust of every day life.

-Berthold Auerbach

Music is only love looking for words.

-Lawrence Durrell

Where words fail, music speaks.

-Hans Christian Andersen

A nation creates music-the composer only arranges it.

-Bela Bartok

If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.

-Jose Bergamin

Study Bach, there you will find everything.

-Johannes Brahms

Composing is like driving down a foggy road...

-Benjamin Britten

A child sings before it speaks, dances almost before it walks, music is with us from the beginning.

-Pamela Brown

Music to me is like breathing-I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.

-Ray Charles

Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly, two.

-Frederic Chopin

Do not fear mistakes, there are none.

-Miles Davis

Playing "bop" is like playing scrabble with all the vowels missing.

-Duke Ellington

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

-Benny Green

People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.

-Paul Hindemith

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

-Victor Hugo

We all have idols.  Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

-B.B. King

If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.

-Carl Perkins

Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

-Plutarch

A painter paints pictures on canvas, but musicians paint their pictures on silence.

-Stokowski