Grace VanderWaal Quotes

Music is such an incredible tool for kids in general. They learn discipline; they learn how to express themselves. You learn math. You learn language. It's the ideal teaching tool, and that's why it's mind-boggling when any school superintendent decides that music is something we can kind of do without.

It's endless, the amount of things that music touches on that can help kids grow that are very, very practical.

Until I discovered hip-hop, I felt I wasn't going to accomplish anything.

I've been really fortunate where I've made stuff that connects to people on a positive level, and that makes me feel really good, but I can't feel comfortable in dictating what they're supposed to feel out of it, nor am I a professional in something where I can really help people any farther than creating the things that I make to help myself.

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

I think the arts are very important for children growing up.

Art helped give me confidence.

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.

In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior; in play, it is as though he were a head taller than himself.

Slobodan Milosevic was just as smart as a five-year-old. Five-year-olds have an uncanny way of getting into your psyche, your self-esteem.

Music has always been profoundly important to me.

The fact is that we take music very seriously.

I believe in allowing your child to be who they want to be - as long as they want to be something great.

I went into college undeclared. I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew that music was obviously this central big important thing in my life that I was gonna keep doing.

Children have such vibrant minds. They need to play. They need to be creative. They need to imagine. It's so important for their sense of self discovery. And it helps them learn problem-solving.

I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't get educated in school. So we try to lay on a bit of that, through being funny, being serious, playing hard.

It is so important to allow children to bloom and to be driven by their curiosity.

I worry about kids and all they are exposed to. Kids get so bombarded with hard, commercial sounds. They don't even have a chance to develop the softer part of themselves without fear of being ridiculed.

One of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child is to help them find their talents.

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

Music is hugely important to me.

Any child may go through periods during which they become less outspoken with their parents or teachers. But girls, like boys, live in many different worlds - they have their friends and their classroom and their parents - and within these different domains, they may have different levels of expressiveness.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.