What is Music?

Music is Science
Music is Mathematical
Music is a Foreign Language
Music is History
Music is Physical Education
Music is all these things, but most of all
Music is ART.

Music is taught
            not because you are expected to major in music
            not because you are expected to play or sing all your life
            not so you can relax
            not so you can have fun

But
            so you will be human
            so you will be sensitive
            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.

Of what value will it be to make a prosperous living unless you know how to live?  That is why music is taught!

                                                            - Daniel Mooney , New York