{"quotes":[{"text":"Make your book of life a musical. Never abandon obligations, but have fun leaving behind a colorful legacy. Never allow anybody to be the composer of your own destiny. Take control of your life, and don't allow limitations implanted by society tell you how your music is supposed to sound — or how your book is supposed to be written.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["cease-the-day","confidence","destiny","encourage","inspiration","inspire","legacy","life","living","motivate","motivation","music","musical","society","sound","take-charge","take-control"],"id":3670,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"You are a valuable instrument in the orchestration of your own world, and the overall harmony of the universe.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["affirmation","diversity","empathy","global-citizen","global-citizenship","harmony","human","inspirational","instrument","love","motivational","music","musical","notes","peace","people","person","unity","unity-in-love","universe","vibrations","voice","world","world-citizen","world-peace"],"id":36979,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!","author":"Dr. Seuss","tags":["dr-seuss","humor","inspirational","musical"],"id":101206,"author_id":"Dr.+Seuss"},{"text":"Life is like a piano. White keys are happy moments and the black ones are sad moments. Both keys are played together to give us the sweet music called Life.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["happiness","happy","inspiration","keys","life","life","living","motivational","music","musical","notes","obstacles","piano","pitfalls","sad","symphony"],"id":119252,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"We are all beautiful instruments of God. He created many notes in music so that we would not be stuck playing the same song. Be music always. Keep changing the keys, tones, pitch, and volume of each of the songs you create along your journey and play on. Nobody will ever reach ultimate perfection in this lifetime, but trying to achieve it is a full-time job. Start now and don't stop. Make your book of life a musical. Never abandon obligations, but have fun leaving behind a colorful legacy. Never allow anybody to be the composer of your own destiny. Take control of your life, and never allow limitations implanted by society, tell you how your music is supposed to sound — or how your book is supposed to be written.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["adventures","ambition","attitude","be-music","beautiful","change","change-life","change-management","changes","composer","control","control-your-life","creativity","destiny","destiny-and-attitude","different","discover","doubt","dreams","drive","failure","fate","fear","fearlessness","goals","harmony","inspirational","inspire","instruments","life","life-and-living","life-control","life-inspiration","life-journey","life-lessons","life-motto","life-path","life-philosophy","life","life-books","life-sayings","live-fearlessly","living","living-philosophy","motivation","music","musical","musician","new-things","path","perfection","pitch","refine","same","sameness","seek","society","song","songs","success","suzy-kassem","tones","travel","volume","wisdom","wonder","wonderment","writer"],"id":123842,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"I'm gonna go put my earplugs in and practice piano for hours until my fingers bleed. I practice the piano with the focus of Helen Keller—and nothing can distract me from the scent of the music.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz.","author":"Karen Quan","tags":["absurd","bleed","distract","distraction","earplugs","focus","funny","helen-keller","humor","life","music","musical","piano","practice","scent","surreal","time"],"id":147353,"author_id":"Karen+Quan"},{"text":" The Best Music you can ever hear in your Life is Silence -- silence of yourself, silence of your loved ones. ","author":"Vinay Kumar","tags":["inspirational","meditation","music","musical","self-esteem","self-love","silence-speaks"],"id":170696,"author_id":"Vinay+Kumar"},{"text":"It might feel like the end of the world--but it's the beginning of your art.","author":"David Levithan","tags":["art","love","lyrics","musical"],"id":170864,"author_id":"David+Levithan"},{"text":"Be music always. Keep changing the keys, tones, pitch, and volume of each of the songs you create along your life's journey and play on.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["alive","change","journey","keys","life","lifestlyle","living","music","musical","notes","pitch","play","song","sound","sounds","tones","transform","transformations","vibrant","vibrations","volume"],"id":183565,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"My body, my soul and my mind, simultaneously response to good music.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["inspired-action","inspired-life","inspired-living","inspired","muscian-activist","muscians","music","music","musical","musical-episode","musical-favorites","musical-talent","power-of-music","power-of-thoughts","power-of-words","spiritual","wise","wise-sayings"],"id":216211,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}