Conservatory Quotes:

I studied opera, and when I left conservatory I told myself I would never sing in public again.

- Garth Greenwell

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Opera, Conservatory, Left

Every body we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.145, Graphic Arts Books

topic: Book, Men, Garden, Conservatory

I was trained at a conservatory school, and they usher you into the business by giving you a showcase. I was so lucky that I met with an agent, and he sent me on an audition for a TV pilot, and I happened to book it. It was like complete luck that it happened.

- Abby Brammell

source: Source: www.thestarscoop.com

topic: Book, School, Giving, Conservatory

Inspired teachers ... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and brought home from the woods and swamps like orchids. They must be placed in a conservatory, not in a carpenter shop; and they must be honored and trusted.

- John Jay Chapman

topic: Teacher, Teaching, Home, Conservatory

Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.

- Ludwig von Mises

source: Ludwig von Mises (1985). “Theory and History”, p.263, Ludwig von Mises Institute

topic: Learning, School, Knowledge, Creative Genius, Conservatory

It's Major Ketchup in the bathroom with the laser scalpel." "Hmm." He sliced a delicately herbed spear of asparagus. "Obviously we were meant for each other as I can interpret that as you meaning something more like Colonel Mustard in the conservatory with the candlestick.

- Nora Roberts

topic: Lasers, Asparagus, Bathroom, Meaning Something, Ketchup

Clark Terry is an American Master. I love to listen to him, particularly 'Mumbles.' I was so delighted when we received degrees together, along with Edward Kennedy, at the New England Conservatory in 1997.

- Aretha Franklin

topic: Together, Degrees, England, Conservatory

The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house. Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.

- John Berger

topic: Heart, Doors, Two, Conservatory, Boulevard

In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on formalism. There was a bulletin board in the Moscow Conservatory. They posted the decree, which said Shostakovichs compositions and Prokofievs were no longer to be played.

- Mstislav Rostropovich

topic: Firsts, Boards, Moscow, Bulletin Board, Conservatory

My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.

- Edith Piaf

topic: Instinct, Streets, Conservatory

They [the teachers at European conservatories] taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.

- Miroslav Vitous

topic: Teacher, Teaching, Differences, Conservatory

Classical musicians go to the conservatories, rock´n roll musicians go to the garages.

- Frank Zappa

topic: Rocks, Musician, Rock N Roll, Classical Musicians, Conservatory

Thus having been undeservedly accepted at the Conservatory as a professor, I soon became one of its best and possibly its very best pupil, judging by the quantity and value of the information it gave me!

- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

topic: Judging, Information, Accepted, Conservatory

I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.

- Rachael MacFarlane

topic: Boston, Musical, Theatre, Musical Theater, Conservatory

Because I had been in conservatory for so long, I was jealous of my friends in bands.

- Nico Muhly

topic: Jealous, Long, Band, Conservatory

My favourite piece of architecture is the Royal Conservatory of Music on Bloor (273 Bloor Street West). When they cleaned up the old building a few years back, the stonework just knocked me out. It is a great melding of the Old Toronto and the new.

- Andy Barrie

topic: Years, Old Buildings, Pieces, Conservatory

I got into [acting] so late because of sports. And then when I was in grad school, I sort of got lulled into basically forgetting I was black, in - meaning that everyone you play at a conservatory, 95 percent of the characters are non-black.

- Mahershala Ali

topic: Sports, School, Character, Grad School, Conservatory

I went to the University of California, Santa Cruz for a year, which turned out to be a really vibrant, very intensive intellectual atmosphere where you could do a lot of aspect of music without it being a conservatory. And that's why I went there.

- Tod Machover

topic: Years, California, Atmosphere, Santa Cruz, Conservatory

My love of classical hit pretty early. I was 13 when it occurred, and that was really the only music I listened to for many, many years. I went to a conservatory, but I always knew I would be in the pop world, because A) it was more fun and B) you didn't have to practice as much and you could go out more. But I immediately saw this opportunity to inject my material with these sounds that most members of my generation really didn't know about, so it was a great way to differentiate myself from the pack.

- Rufus Wainwright

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Fun, Opportunity, Practice, Conservatory

There's nothing like a good conservatory drama school to really get you ready for the work force.

- Abby Brammell

source: Source: www.thestarscoop.com

topic: Drama, School, Force, Conservatory

In fact although I have studied in a Conservatory the classical piano, I do not consider myself a classical pianist.

- Richard Clayderman

topic: Piano, Facts, Pianist, Conservatory

When Claude Debussy studied at the Paris Conservatory from age ten to age twenty-two, many considered him a rebel because of his treatment of dissonance and his disdain for the established forms. He reputedly turned to a fellow student during a performance of Beethoven with the words, "Let's go. He's starting to develop.

- Claude Debussy

topic: Paris, Two, Age, Debussy, Conservatory

Now, as for this new breed of musicians with their 'ultrasonic' conservatory technique, I say: So What. Tell me a story from the heart of your soul and what your existence in this Universe is all about!

- Woody Shaw

topic: Heart, Soul, Stories, Conservatory

I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.

- Tim Heidecker

topic: School, College, Self, Conservatory

I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.

- Emeril Lagasse

topic: School, Cooking, Pay, Conservatory

At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and wanted to do my own stuff. You know, towards the end of college I had actually planned to go to the Boston Conservatory of Music for musical theater.

- Seth MacFarlane

topic: College, Boston, Musical, Musical Theater, Conservatory

I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.

- Randy Harrison

topic: Summer, College, Agents, Showcase, Monologues

Lucy swayed in shock. A gust of wind moaned through the conservatory and blew out all but one of her candles. Simon must have done this. He’d destroyed his fairyland conservatory. Why? She sank to her knees, huddled on the cold floor, her one remaining flame cradled in her numb palms. She’d seen how tenderly Simon had cared for his plants. Remembered the look of pride when she’d first discovered the dome and fountain. For him to have smashed all this . . . He must have lost hope. All hope.

- Elizabeth Hoyt

topic: Pride, Flames, Wind, Lost Hope, Lucy

I have a sister who is a dancer and dance teacher. We grew up dancing together. I wanted to become a ballerina when I was a kid, so she and I were always at ballet conservatories and going to school with our hair in buns.

- Mary Elizabeth Winstead

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Teacher, Kids, School, Dance Teacher, Conservatory

Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day.

- Ryan Sypek

topic: College, Years, Four, Going To College, Conservatory

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

- Mark Morris

topic: Opinion, Aspect, Certain, Conservatory

I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11.

- Tori Amos

topic: Two, Piano, Baltimore, Conservatory

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

- Billy Joel

topic: Musician, Young, Pursue, Conservatory, Secondary Education

I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

- Bernie Worrell

topic: Boston, Lessons, Keyboards, Conservatory

Once in a while, a teacher gets rewarded with a brilliant student. My two years with Dan Szabo at the New England Conservatory were indeed a gift -- he is a pianist with unlimited potential and a composer that makes my heart sing. I deeply feel that he is an important musician for the coming years.

- Bob Brookmeyer

topic: Teacher, Heart, Years, Unlimited Potential, Conservatory

Africa may yet prove to be the spiritual conservatory of the world ...When the civilised nations in consequence of their wonderful material development, shall have had their spiritual susceptibilities blunted through the agency of a captivating and absorbing materialism, it may be that they have to resort to Africa to recover some of the simple elements of faith.

- Edward Wilmot Blyden

source: "Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race".

topic: Spiritual, Simple, Agency, Susceptibility, Conservatory

I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City.

- Placido Domingo

topic: Cities, Two, Years, Mexico City, Conservatory

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

- Cecilia Bartoli

source: "Diva Cecilia Bartoli". Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. November 9, 1998.

topic: School, Rome, Music In Schools, Conservatory

There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a workshop in Boston at the New England Conservatory, which was really nice.

- Charlie Haden

source: "Charlie Haden Remembers Tomorrow". Interview With Mike Brannon, www.allaboutjazz.com. March 7, 2003.

topic: Nice, Boston, People, Really Nice, Conservatory

I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.

- Elizabeth Olsen

topic: Important, Acting, Different, Conservatory

I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.

- Wendell Pierce

topic: Years, San Francisco, Baltimore, Conservatory

I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.

- Lance Reddick

source: "'Wire' and 'Fringe' star makes music, too". Interview with John Carucci, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. January 10, 2011.

topic: Study, Grew Up, Grew, Studying Music, Conservatory

The operas that I do are more in the operetta world, but I've gotten to do them in all of these major opera companies so it's been really wild. And I feel comfortable in that world because I went Cincinnati Conservatory and I hung out with all those kinds of people, I love hanging out with them and I understand them and their "diva-osity."

- Jason Graae

source: Source: www.broadwayworld.com

topic: People, World, Opera, Conservatory

I often say of my background: "That and a Metrocard will get me downtown." Honestly, I think the upshot of my training in acting and writing is that I've been trained to be adventurous. There are so many moments in conservatory where I was encouraged to push the envelope and color outside the lines. I think that sense of bravery flavors what I do. It allows me to take chances that I might not otherwise take.

- Steven C. Harper

topic: Writing, Thinking, Color, Conservatory

My life has had a lot of fits and starts: before I studied literature at all I was a musician, and began undergrad as a conservatory student. I started studying literature in my third year of college, when I took a poetry course with James Longenbach that was pretty extraordinary. It changed my life.

- Garth Greenwell

topic: College, Years, Musician, Studying Literature, Conservatory

I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are really awful songs, but I guess they saw something in them.

- Regina Spektor

topic: Song, Writing, Thinking, Conservatory

I loved Queen, Journey, Fleetwood Mac, and people like Barbara Streisand. The thing with me is that classical music was also an inspiration. I took piano lessons at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels for 10 years.

- Lara Fabian

topic: Queens, Inspiration, Journey, Fleetwood Mac, Barbara Streisand

Literally, walking down that path. I was walking to work and I passed by A.C.T. (American Conservatory Theater) in San Francisco, and they had night education classes for adults. I said, "Yeah, why not?," and walked in, just for the fun of it, to see what it was like.

- Tim Kang

topic: Fun, Night, Class, Conservatory

My dad studied at the American Conservatory in Chicago, so he lived on all those streets. He said the war probably saved his life because he'd have ended up a dead musician, with all the crazy stuff they did on Rush Street back in the day.

- Kim Basinger

source: Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

topic: Dad, Crazy, War, Conservatory

I started in high school with a teacher there. I also took lessons at the Conservatory of Music in Detroit. Detroit was very motivating. There were a lot of local people who inspired me like Kenny Burrell, Paul Chambers, Roy Brooks, Donald Byrd, etc.

- Yusef Lateef

topic: Teacher, School, People, Conservatory