Quotes About Learning

That's where I get my whole music theory from, my pops and my grandfather.

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.

There are different people who got me into music, but what I liked about Beethoven is that even when I didn't understand it or it was too long, there's still something about it that drove me to it. Then it got me excited about actually learning music, like a theory of it.

I learned to play by ear before I learned music theory. For me, that makes sense. After all, children learn to speak before they read and write. The more you understand of music - how harmony and time signatures work, and what chords and inversions are - the more you'll enjoy it.

Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.

I play bass. I play a bit of guitar. I've never been to a lesson, so my theory of music is non-existent in any instrument, but we always had guitars around. My dad taught me to play drums for 'Love Actually,' and I still play drums now. But I'm not a 'drummer.' I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist.

The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.

I learned Einstein's theory of relativity when I was still in school. I simply got interested.

I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.

See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.

Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and I was the keyboard player. I was interested in how the instruments worked and the theory behind playing with them.

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument.

I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess a lot of it came from being taught at school.

When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.

My mom was in education, and I remember reading in one of her books about multiple intelligences - this whole theory about how there are all these different ways you can be intelligent, like eight or 10 of them or something. And one of them is emotional.

The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be true of mathematics - if you can find links between different branches of mathematics, it can help you resolve problems. In both mathematics and chess, you study existing theory and use that to go forward.

When I was in film school, I was learning more theory than practice.

My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.

To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.