Chick Corea

I get interested in the various ways that music is being done in the culture, and some of it I like thoroughly enough to want to learn about it. The way I have been successful at doing that is to become part of it.

Only a spiritual being has awareness.

The fact that an artist is experiencing the joy of creation makes me feel like we’re in it together.

Without a doubt, my richest relationships are my long-term friendships with musical partners, because we make music together. That’s what we love to do with our lives.

Only play what you hear. If you don’t hear anything, don’t play anything.

I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I’m doing is I’m studying.

I was a great student. I was good at everything.

Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field!

That man is best educated who knows the greatest number of things that are so, and who can do the greatest number of things to help and heal the world.

Many of my students don’t know that I’m second lady of the United States… because, you know, it’s a community college.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Community colleges are certainly one of America’s best-kept secrets.

By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good paying job.

Learn something new every day.

Very early it was noticed that I had a good memory; therefore I was insistently tormented with learning everything by heart.

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

For profit higher education is today a booming industry feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.

Education not just preparation for life, but part if life itself-a continuous art.

Education can’t focus only on developing our wonderful brain. We also need warm-heartedness. This is my view.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.