Concerned Quote by Ned Rorem

Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

— Aristotle

Music is the ultimate teacher.

— Wassily Kandinsky

Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members…

— Roger Ebert

Casals says music fills him with the wonder of life and the 'incredible marvel' of being a human. Ives says it expands his mind…

— Richard Riley

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

— Martin Luther

Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though it may…

— John Blacking

Music has as many roles as people make it.

— Ani DiFranco

I live in a country where music has very little success, though, exclusive of those who have forsaken us, we have still admirable professors…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

My mum's an opera singer: I grew up watching her get swept up in music and transform herself into characters. She taught me that…

— Katie Noonan

My mom and grandfather are my first teachers of music. Those experiences and the process of exploring music as a discipline through them and…

— Guillermo E. Brown

We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to public policy…

— David Foster Wallace

I have always loved music; whoso has skill in this art, is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. We must teach music…

— Martin Luther