The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.
Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.
Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.
Creativity is as important as literacy
It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp.
Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.
You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
I think you've all heard my story about my daughter and how we felt Children's Hospital saved her life when she was less than a year old. I won't go through all of the details of that.
General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity.
There's a lot of really inspiring music coming around the bend - we tend to believe that to sound classic or timeless is to sound vintage or retro. It's a little bit dangerous, because you'll really miss a chance to make your mark as a generation.
Who wants to go to school and be asked for, like, 20 autographs?