09/17

“Teaching music is not my main purpose. I want to make good citizens. 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, creator of the Suzuki method of music educator

09/05

“If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.”

-singer Luciano Pavarotti

09/02

“Perhaps we’ve all misunderstood the reason we learn music, and all the arts in the first place.... for hundreds of years, it has been known that teaching the arts, along with history and math and biology, helps to create the well-rounded mind that western civilization and America have been grounded on.”
-actor Richard Dreyfuss