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GNG is a nonprofit volunteer organization that started in 2000. They provide guitars and music lessons to foster kids, at-risk teens, and other underprivileged children. The program is provided at no cost to GNG students. GNG is a much needed self-esteem building outlet that helps young people resist substance abuse, gang involvement, violence, and criminal activity. Please visit the GNG website to learn more. There may be a GNG chapter in your community, or you may decide to start a chapter.
A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank
account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of
car I drove, but the world may be different because I was
important in the life of a child. Forest E. Witcraft
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between
the notes and curl my back to loneliness. Maya Angelou
Music can change the world. Ludwig Van Beethoven
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They
teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's
no boundary line to art. Charlie Parker
Without music life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. Leigh Hunt
Music's the medicine of the mind. John A. Logan
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life
bringing peace, abolishing strife. Kahlil Gibran
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the
inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley
If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is
the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth. Sydney Smith
Interviewer: "What's the smartest thing you've ever heard anyone
in rock and roll say?" Paul Simon: "Be-bop-a-lula, she's my baby."
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will
know peace. Jimi Hendrix
The pause is as important as the note. Truman Fisher
Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.
Paul Whiteman
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the
Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
A good player can make any guitar sound good.
Michael Bloomfield
Bach gave us God's Word. Mozart gave us God's laughter.
Beethoven gave us God's fire. God gave us Music that we might
pray without words. (Quote from outside an old opera house.)
You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn
how to live. Bob Dylan
If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.
Zimbabwe Proverb
If music be the food of love, play on. William Shakespeare
We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and
religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate
a lot of it. Jerry Garcia
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
Miles Davis
He who sings scares away his woes. Cervantes
I think I should have no other mortal wants if I could always have
plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas
into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled
with music. George Bernard Shaw
Whatever your standing in life, the most important thing is
behaving in ways that help other people. It's the same with
music. I am a servant of the music, and if I get caught up in
ego, I'll lose everything, it'll burn, and that's a guarantee.
Eric Clapton
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons.
You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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