Chick Corea

The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.

I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.

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

Art is a subject that is inundated with opinions. In fact, that’s all it is about is opinions.

Every time I see a musician – it doesn’t matter what age – that inspires me, there’s always a secret little wish that maybe we’ll play together, because that’s how I learn and grow and so forth, you know. But hopefully there’s a lot more.

I’ve noticed that the more adventurous and in that mode that I am, it seems that the more the audience really likes it.

In our culture and in culture sometimes they make you feel a little be weird for being smart… but we are intelligent people and our dreams matter regardless of if you speak with an accent and people think that that makes you not intelligent.

Women who are interested in pursuing bachelor’s and master’s degrees – especially in STEM fields – benefit from starting at a community college. They offer an affordable education, with flexible schedules and degrees close to home.

One of the things that make community colleges so special is they do not pick and choose their students – they work with all students.

Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot educate today’s youth, what will we do in 1970 when elementary enrollment will be 5 million greater than 1960? And high school enrollment will rise by 5 million. College enrollment will increase by more than 3 million.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

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

School reports were always pretty bad. I never ever did my homework. I always turned up for lessons as I liked my teachers but my report said I didn’t try very hard.

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

In the past, there has been a stigma surrounding community colleges, where they were seen as a less viable option because they are not four-year universities. I know differently and so do the millions of people across the country who have received an affordable, quality higher education at community college.

The more you learn the more you realize how much you don’t know.

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.

I went to college on an art scholarship at the American Academy of Art, but the education comes from being passionate about objects, spaces, colors and the way they affect your senses.

[On school] Not only did I know that I wasn’t one of the smart kids in the class, but so did everyone else.

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.