Music Quotes

• “Music... gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination... and life to everything.” (Plato)

• “All musical people seem to be happy; it is to them the engrossing pursuit; almost the only innocent and unpunished passion.”
  (Sydney Smith)

• "Music can transport us to a new place. Stay quiet and stay in that place where everything is possible." (Beth Wolfe, violinist in performance at the First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis, March 1999)

• “We talk a lot about the business [of music]. But . . . the reason we do it is because our souls are fed. This is a disparate group of people, dispositionally and personality-wise . . . . But when the [conductor’s] stick comes down, everything changes. Then we’re a total unit. And we think and feel and are alike. This is the ultimate of what we do: express the music. We all know it in some part of our psyche.” (Minnesota Orchestra French horn player David Kamminga, describing the Orchestra’s European tour, 3/3/98 Minneapolis Star Tribune, p. E9)

• “Oh, the places you’ll go!” (Dr. Seuss)

• “. . . Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. . . The mind can never break off from the journey.” (Pat Conroy)

• “I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler.” (Paul Theroux, American writer, b. 1941)

Leadership/Education/Service Quotes

• “There is one thing worse than not being able to see: being able to see and having no vision.” (Helen Keller)

• “Like a ship without a rudder, an uncommitted person has power but no direction.” (Adapted from Paul S. McElroy, New Beginning, Peter Pauper Press)

• “If you see something that you know is wrong, you'll know it in your heart. Trust your feelings, your senses, your ideas.”
  (John Parker)

• “I slept and dreamed that life was pleasure, I worked and saw that life was service, I served and discovered that service was pleasure.” (Rabindranath Tagore)

Bus Games

Match the Movie with the Composer, Part 1
(Note: This version is for “old” movie buffs-and directors.)

a. Mozart
b. Handel
c. Mahler
d. Vivaldi
e. Strauss
f . Wagner
g. Barber
h. Bach

Match the Movie with the Composer, Part 2
(Note: These are more recent movies, for you younger directors and students.)

1. Four Weddings and a Funeral
2. Mrs. Doubtfire
3. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
4. The Cowboy Way
5. Philadelphia
6. Cool Runnings
7. My Life
8. Guarding Tess

(Answers: 1f, 2h, 3c or e, 4c or e, 5g, 6a, 7d, 8b)

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