"Teaching is not my main purpose. I want to make good citizens. If a child hears fine music from the day of his birth and learns to play himself, he develops sensitivity, discipline and endurance. He gets a beautiful heart." Shinichi Suzuki
"People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts." Paul Hindermith
"Music is the vapor of the air. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves." Victor Hugo
"As humans our best work is art. But artists don't leap to life full grown. They need good schools, patient parents and skilled mentors." David Rockefeller, Jr.
"Music is moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is good, just and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never the less, dazzling, passionate, and eternal form. Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the inmost soul and take strongest hold upon it, bringing with them and imparting grace, if one is rightly trained." Plato
