Quotes About Education

I came from a very small high school in which there was no guidance and not any appreciable amount of physics taught, nor much mathematics. So I didn't know what academia was all about until I got to college.

Since childhood I've been very bad with formulas in math, physics.

I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.

I actually started as a concert pianist. I had a scholarship to the Julliard School of Music.

Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting.

I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.

I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know.

Mother, being a pianist, told me how to play with my fingers on the piano.

You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?

I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.

I don't let the children watch TV on weeknights. They practice playing musical instruments instead. Both my sons play piano, drums and guitar, so my husband and I listen to them in the evening.

I have two extraordinary daughters, who, I can say proudly, are doing very well in school and in piano. Daughters are a father's joy.

I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it.

I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11.

I wish I could play the piano. I started when I was four and finished when I was five. I got bored. I couldn't tell my left hand from my right back then!

My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.

I love school and science; I also love piano and music.

My mother started me on the piano when I was 3 years old.

I learned to read music when I was 10 and did piano and took lessons.

Everyone at school knew I wanted to be a singer. I'd always be banging on the piano playing my new song. The teacher would gather us round, and the whole class would listen.

As a kid, I took piano lessons, and I didn't like it. It wasn't cool. I was into Duran Duran and rock music. I didn't have any interest in piano. I did it for three years, and because of piano, I learned percussion. I learned scales. I learned how to sing. Piano gives you all of the basics of those things.

Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child.

All the kids at the kindergarten had to play, or at least touch, the piano. It was a good start. Then, after kindergarten, all my friends took piano lessons, so I joined them.

I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.