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“Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.”

Children Would Be Music Musician Endeavor

Author:Horace Walpole

“Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.”

Years Children Mother Music Feet Musician Singing Sitting Piano Strings Dusk Vistas

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”

“Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.”

Giving Children Used Waiting Parent Music Rocks Grew Industry Authority Grew Up Entertainment Silver Entertainment Industry Silver Platter

Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.”

Should Children Joy Education Music Discovery Mathematics Math Math Education

Book:Aims of Education

Source: Aims of Education

“Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs", searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.”

Mind Children Music Jazz Musical Noise Flats Thirst Jungle Roaming

Author:Duke Ellington

“Let my children have music! Let them hear live music.”

Children Music My Children Live Music

Author:Charles Mingus

“When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.”

Children Art Running School Imagination Music Tired Bored Children's Imagination

Author:T Bone Burnett

“Each time my mother went psychotic, I hoped it would be the last time. Afterward she would tell me, 'I think that was the final episode. I think I had a breakthrough.' And I would believe-for a few months-that it was true. That she was back to stay. Maybe it was like having a rock star mother who was always on the road. Were there Benatar children? Did they sit around and wonder if their mom's Hell is for Children tour was going to be her last tour?”

Ifs Thinking Believe Children Would Be Lasts Mother Stars Wonder Music Hell Rocks Mom Months Finals Episodes Last Time Breakthrough Rock Star Psychotic

Book:Running with Scissors: A Memoir

Source: Running with Scissors: A Memoir

“Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.”

Children Passion Music Family Generations Clothes Stronger Eight Nine Procrastination Funny Music Generation Gap Music Is Life Passion For Music Music Is My Passion

Book:Fatherhood

Source: Fatherhood