Music Pedagogy Quotes

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.

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.

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin.

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

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.

I went to music school, and I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student.

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

Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.

My mother, who is a Carnatic musician, started a school for children when I was around three, and I grew up listening to her teaching students.

I went to college for, like, a year and a half with the intention of doing some kind of art therapy or some kind of teaching of art, because I feel like art is a more free area in school than music is. I feel like music is too mathematic for me. Music school's so hard. It's math.

I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others.

I come from a small village and have had no formal training in music or any classes from the masters of Indian classical music.

I didn't go to a conservatoire, and I have certain low opinions of certain aspects of the conservatory experience.

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.

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

Music education was always big for me. Ever since I was a young kid, I always said it was the reason I went to school sometimes and knowing if I didn't do well in class that my mom wasn't gonna let me sing in school or sing at that concert.

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

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

I studied classical piano from the time I was 4 through my first year of college.

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.

My mother is an amazing vocalist and a lot of my grounding in music has come from her. She was a student of Lakshmi Shankar, my father's sister- in- law.

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

My dad was a teacher. He has a Masters in music. He taught elementary school, and he played gigs his whole life, and we lived good.