Quotes on Music Education
Music majors are the most likely group of college grads to be admitted to medical school.
Lewis Thomas, Case for Music in the Schools, Phi Delta Kappa, 1994
High school music students have been shown to hold higher grade point averages (GPA) than non-musicians in the
same school.
National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988
A Columbia University study revealed that students in the arts are found to be more cooperative with teachers and
peers, more self-confident and better able to express their ideas. These benefits exist across socioeconomic levels.
The Arts Education Partnership, 1999
During moments of musical euphoria, blood travels through the brain to areas where other stimuli can produce feelings
of contentment and joy-and travels away from brain cell areas associated with depression and fear.
Dr. Frederick Tims, reported in AMC Music News, June 2, 1999
Quotes about Music
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
We listen to great music and know that all our joys and sorrows are part of something beyond our comprehension - and
so indefinitely valuable.
Jesse O'Neill
“Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.”
― Johnny Depp
“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow