Jon Secada Quotes

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

My parents were both high-school music teachers.

I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.

I think music should be the basis of an education, not just something you do once a week.

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

My mom is an elementary-school music teacher. For her, music is an educational tool.

I had teachers in high school to point me in the direction of the University of Indiana School of Music, and after IU, I went on to study at the Academy of Arts in Philadelphia. I graduated in 2006.

And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

Just so people know, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music is not at all about celebrity or fame or being a star. It's an academic music school.

There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.

Both of my parents are actually music teachers.

I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.

I have a greater goal - to empower young people through music education.

When I wanted to be a music teacher, I wanted to help people through voice. Now, I get to help people out through song.

Government should take necessary steps to add music into school syllabus and impart knowledge to the students.

My mother was a very talented pianist, and she was a music teacher who hated to teach music, actually, but she loved to play, so I was brought up with Chopin, Debussy and Mozart.

America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study.

The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about being a rock star. It's about the fundamentals of music, theory and technique on a particular instrument, and playing in an ensemble or private setting.

I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.

I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that I write. I consider this one of the most vital aspects of my work.

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week.

The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people.

I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.

I'd like to expand on doing what I love and venture out a bit more. I would like to play consistantly good music. Eventually someday I would like to open up a school and teach kids about music.