Music is Life

Why music?

1- Music is Science
2- Music is Mathematical
3- Music is a Foreign Language
4-Music is History
5- Music is Physical Education
6- Music Develops Insight and Demands Research
7-Music is all these things, but most of all, Music is Art.

That is why we teach music. Not because we expect you to play or sing all your life…
– But so you will be human
– So you will recognize beauty
– So you will be closer to an infinite beyond this world
– So you will have something to cling to
– So you will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness, more good
In short – more Life

This is what R. Daniel Mooney wrote in the 1960′. He was a music teacher in the Carmel School system in NY, and it was published in the NY State Musicians Journal.

I like this characterization and consider it one of the best. It includes everything what music can be and what it can touch.

I wish everyone a peaceful Merry Christmas