| "We are what we repeatedly do, so excellence therefore, is not an act but a habit." - Aristotle   |
| "If you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you always got." - Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser   |
| "You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything." - Ellis Marsalis   |
| "Music washes away the dust of every day life." - Art Blakey   |
| "Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple." - Charles Mingus   |
| "I’ve found you’ve got to look back at the old things and see them in a new light." - Charlie Parker   |
| "Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!" - Oliver Wendell Holmes   |
| "Country music is three chords and the truth." - Harlan Howard   |
| "Good music is good music and that should be enough for anybody." - Brad Nowell   |
| "Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats." - Victor Borge   |
| "Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them." - Richard Strauss   |
| "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture." - Steve Martin   |
| "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." -   |
| "A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out." - Ernest Newman   |
| "Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises." - Leontyne Price   |
| "Leaders do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, whether they want to or not, without being asked." - Thomas Huxley   |