Quotes About Education

I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.

I'm a big fan of music, I'm a student of music, and I just wanna learn and keep enhancing my education about the music.

In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.

Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.

When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.

The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.

Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music.

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.

I've always regretted the fact that I've never formally studied and learned the mechanics of writing music.

I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.

If jazz education in our colleges were free to all it would provide thousands of good jobs in the music industry which has been taken over by corrupt millionaires and billionaires.

One of the most beautiful things we can give our child is music education.

Growing up in music motivated me. I applied that to my education and it made me a better person.

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

Kids on the Youtube, learning how to be cool.

I feel like people who actually know how music works on a technical level need to explain it to the rest of us a little more often.

I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.

The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.

I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.

My music education was oral. I was resistant to scores and things like that. In Jewish religious music, there are no scores. You learn everything by rote, by ear, by repeating.

My mother was a music teacher and my grandfather was a professor of music, and there was a lot of singing in the family. It wasn't like trained singing or anything like that, but it was singing.