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Especially girls, but any kids exposed to music programs and arts programs do much better on their tests. They have a better chance of going to college. They can focus better. You know, we're not just automatons learning how to work machines and do engineering and math and science. All of that's great, but you've got to build a whole person.

Music is such an incredible tool for kids in general. They learn discipline; they learn how to express themselves. You learn math. You learn language. It's the ideal teaching tool, and that's why it's mind-boggling when any school superintendent decides that music is something we can kind of do without.

Studying music, everyone sort of has their own style - it's not like everyone's going for the same part.

Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

You cannot help but notice that schools that take music seriously tend to be more academically successful.

I hated science in high school. Technology? Engineering? Math? Why would I ever need this? Little did I realize that music was also about science, technology, engineering and mathematics, all rolled into one.

I never played music, but it's an important thing ... the studying, the inspiration.

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.