Quotes About Education

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

If I didn't have some kind of education, then I wouldn't be able to count my money.

What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before you write a Hemingway novel.

Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.

I'm focusing on the music, but I still got a cold library of books that I've either read or I plan on getting to.

Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it

I think classical music tuition is, well, was when I was a child, was an abomination. I think in some ways it is one of life's great tragedies for everybody who gives up an instrument.

I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.

Education isn't just about feeding the brain. Art and music feed the heart and soul.

Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.

I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

Learning from other people is what music is all about.

I am not a fan of books.

Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

The more I can learn about music, the more I learn about other things.

Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.

I studied classical percussion for ten years. At one point I was thinking about going to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but then I realized it's actually not what I wanted to do.

I was 13 and my mom was a librarian so I told her to check out every music book she could possibly find. I wanted to know the business part of being in the music business.

It's important to give kids an opportunity to see what the world is about, and music is a fantastic friend.

I had to learn chord shapes... I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.

Rock stars are idiots. You know that! Remember this moron never went to music school, never learned music theory and can't read or write music. So why not be suspicious of everything this idiot says?

I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.

People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.