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  • Another classical music teacher from Performing Arts that I've stayed in contact with is Jonathan Strasser.

  • High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.

  • Sometime during the 1990s, when I was teaching philosophy at UCSD, my friend, colleague, and music teacher, Carol Plantamura, discussed the possibility of teaching a course together looking at ways in which various literary works (plays, stories, novels) had been treated as operas, and how different themes emerged in the opera and in its original. One of the pairings we planned to use was Mann's great novella and Britten's opera. Unfortunately, the course was never taught, but the idea remained with me.

    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

    Music   Giving   Lists  
  • The music teacher thought I sang like a goat. It was kind of devastating. A few months after that, I participated in a music contest and won. I took my little trophy to school and rubbed it in his nose. I said to him, "What do you say now?"

    "I Know What I Stand For". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 29, 2009.
  • My father is a violinist and my mother is a pianist, so I've been hearing music all my life. I started playing at three and had my first music teacher at five.

    Mother   Teacher   Father  
  • Music teachers can either inspire or make you resent your instrument and parents in early years.

    Teacher   Years   Parent  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • Actually, I started as a ventriloquist and my music teacher said, "Why don't you emcee the talent show?" My act was out of the back of Boys' Life magazine-they had a whole series of jokes in the back of Boys' Life magazine for Boy Scouts. So my act was jokes with my ventriloquist figure, and it was really bad, but I walked into the classroom afterward and the kids went, "Wow, you're cool." I wasn't cool at all, but I thought, "Well, this is a pretty good deal."

    Teacher   Kids   Boys  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

    Funny   Music   Night  
  • Music can change the world.

    Music   Peace   World  
  • Both of my parents are music teachers. My mother owns the school that I taught in. My brothers and sisters are musicans. My mom pushed me all the time. She knew that I could do it. She knew more than I did. She thought I would go somewhere. She gave me the job and helped me get equipment, which a lot of parents don't do. Alot of my students had to go out and fight for it.

    Mom   Mother   Teacher  
  • I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.

    Teacher   Father   Years  
  • I used to take musical instruments home from elementary school. There were some music teachers there - we all learned instruments. A lot of us got started in public schools. Charlie Parker and Bud Powell, for example. But now there are no more music teachers in public elementary schools. It's like (Senator) Moynihan said, 'benign neglect.' Just let it rot and fester.

    Teacher   Home   School  
  • If every school would hire two more music teachers, we would need two fewer police officers.

    Teacher   School   Two  
  • The boyfriend of the student music teacher came in: "Hey, kids, this is a real Air Force pilot." I asked him something to the effect of how it felt to be dropping bombs on children in Vietnamese villages. And it got very icy in there all of a sudden, and finally the teacher said, "Oh, well, Eric reads a lot of newspapers. Next question."

    Teacher   Children   Real  
    Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.
  • I remember I was in music class, I was a senior in high school, and my music teacher was like, "You should be a stand-up comic, you could imitate anyone.

    Senior   Teacher   School  
    Source: summerfelix.com
  • They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

    Music   Sound   Opera  
  • I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

    Music   Witty   Humorous  
    Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1984)
  • Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I was hearing the fundamentals of playing the piano, what notes are, and all those things very early on.

    Mom   Teacher   Piano  
    Source: www.marieclaire.com
  • Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

  • I really think music in school is vital. Some pivotal moments in my life were my childhood scholastic experiences with music - teachers who found out I could sing, and encouraged me, or teachers who turned me on to music or bands I hadn't yet heard.

    Source: www.pmakid.com
  • Both of my parents are actually music teachers.

    Interview with David Wolinsky, music.avclub.com. October 26, 2010.
  • A mediocre music teacher tells. A good music teacher explains. A superior music teacher demonstrates. A great music teacher inspires.

  • I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.

    Funny   Music   Country  
  • My music teacher told me that she didn't even know why I was going to college - I should be a stand-up.

  • 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.

    Source: pitchfork.com
  • My school music teacher, Al Bennest, introduced me to jazz by playing Louis Armstrong's record of "West End Blues" for me. I found more jazz on the radio, and began looking for records. My paper route money, and later, money I earned working after school in a print shop and a butcher shop went toward buying jazz records. I taught myself the alto saxophone and the drums in order to play in my high school dance band.

    Teacher   School   Order  
  • Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

    Music   Witty   Humorous  
    Autobiography (published in 1924).
  • My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me - the humiliation of it - as a soprano.These, by contrast, are the six elements of a Sacred Harp alto: rage, darkness, motherhood, earth, malice, and sex. Once you feel it, you can always do it. You know where to go for it, though it will cost you.

    Mary Rose O'Reilley (2014). “The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd”, p.49, Milkweed Editions
  • I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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