So many schools are getting rid of music programs and it's really sad because I know that when I started singing and stuff it was something that I always wanted to do and I never believed in myself to be able to do it.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best.

Marilu Henner

The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?

William Shakespeare

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

Muhammad Ali

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

Walter Benjamin

I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.

Taryn Manning

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.

Cullen Hightower

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Samuel Johnson

Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.

Francesca Annis

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.

William Hague

Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: It's all small stuff.

Michael Mantell

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

Ethel Barrett