"What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.“


-David Ogden Stiers

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What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

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