Music Teacher Quotes:

Both of my parents are actually music teachers.

- Charlie Day

topic: Teacher, Parent, Music Teacher

A mediocre music teacher tells. A good music teacher explains. A superior music teacher demonstrates. A great music teacher inspires.

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Teacher, Inspire, Great Music, Music Teacher

Music is the universal language of mankind.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Music, Teacher, Appreciation, Music Life, Music Is Life

Music can change the world.

- Ludwig van Beethoven

topic: Music, Peace, World, Music Life, Music And Life

At the heart of good education are those gifted, hardworking, and memorable teachers whose inspiration kindles fires that never quite go out, whose remembered encouragement is sometimes the only hard ground we stand upon, and whose very selves are the stuff of the best lessons they ever teach us. Most of us, no matter how long ago it's been, can name our kindergarten teacher. Our first music teacher. Our junior high algebra teacher. Good teachers never die.

- Rosalie Maggio

topic: Education, Teacher, Encouragement, Kindergarten Teacher, Kindle Fire

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

- Kurt Masur

topic: Teacher, School, Two, Music Teacher, Police Officer

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.

- Heather McDonald

source: Source: summerfelix.com

topic: Senior, Teacher, School, Music Teacher, High School Senior

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

- Jean Paul

topic: Music, Night, Moonlight, Jazz And Life, Music Therapy

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

- Jill Sobule

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Teacher, Years, Parent, Music Teacher

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

- Pablo Picasso

source: "LIFE", Vol. 57, nr. 11, (p. 9), September 11, 1964.

topic: Life, Art, Dust, Fine Arts, Jazz And Life

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.

- Roger Ebert

topic: Teacher, Drama, Inspiration, Music Teacher

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."

- Jello Biafra

source: Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

topic: Teacher, Children, Real, Music Teacher, Oh Well

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Math Education, Inspirational Education

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

- Elvis Presley

topic: Music, Witty, Humorous, Notes Music, Spiritual Music

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

- Gioachino Rossini

topic: Music, Giving, Lists, Music Teacher, Composing Music

If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two hours every day listening to Johann Sebastian Bach and, man, it's all there. If they want to improvise around a theme,which is the essence of jazz, they should learn from the master. He never wastes a note, and he knows where every note is going and when to bring it back. Some of these cats go way out and forget where they began or what they started to do. Bach will clear it up for them.

- Coleman Hawkins

topic: Cat, Men, Thinking, Improvising, Music Teacher

When a music teacher that I had at school was taken ill and we had a variety show and I had to fill in - that's when I realized I had a voice.

- Lily Allen

source: "13 Questions With Lily Allen". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com. December 19, 2006.

topic: Teacher, Taken, School, Music Teacher

They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

- Edgar Wilson Nye

topic: Musical, Sound, Music Is, Musical Life, Music Teacher

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?"

- Shakira

source: "I Know What I Stand For". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 29, 2009.

topic: Teacher, School, Trophies, Music Teacher

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.

- Ed Droste

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Mother, Teacher, Grandfather, Music Teacher

Both of my parents are actually music teachers. I think I got to a certain age where I decided I'd rather be a baseball player than a musician. Now, like most kids, I regret it.

- Charlie Day

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Baseball, Teacher, Regret, Music Teacher

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

- David Ogden Stiers

topic: Teacher, School, High School, Music Teacher

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

- Mark Twain

source: Autobiography (published in 1924).

topic: Music, Witty, Humorous, Musical Life, Music Teacher

My first singing role was as Susanna in a school production in a shortened form of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. I loved to sing and I was given lots of encouragement by a wonderful music teacher Mrs Ann Hill and by my parents who suggested I go to drama school.

- Elaine Paige

source: "Angie Davidson Interviews Elaine Paige" by Angie Davidson, 2005.

topic: Teacher, Encouragement, Drama, Music Teacher

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.

- Dave Smalley

source: Source: www.pmakid.com

topic: Teacher, School, Thinking, Music Teacher, Music In Schools

My music teacher was like, "Ester, you need to pay attention in class." I'm like, "No miss lady, 'cause I can sing." I didn't want anybody to change the way I sung. I learned by gospel CDs and by watching my momma sing; I didn't need this teacher to tell me. I wish I had, because then I would have learned how to play the damn piano or something. I would have a couple of more things under my belt if I wasn't so hard-headed.

- Ester Dean

topic: Teacher, Couple, Cds, Music Teacher, My Momma

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.

- Philip Kitcher

source: Source: www.3ammagazine.com

topic: Teacher, Philosophy, Teaching, Music Teacher, Literary Works

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'.

- Bob Newhart

topic: Music, Country, Mean, Music Teacher, Funny Music

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.

- Randy Rhoads

topic: Mom, Mother, Teacher, Music Teacher

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.

- Jillian Hervey

topic: Mom, Teacher, Piano, Music Teacher

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."

- David Copperfield

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Teacher, Kids, Boys, Music Teacher, Talent Show

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.

- Bill Crow

topic: Teacher, School, Order, Jazz Records, Armstrong

I attended the High School of Industrial Arts and studied with many great artists as painting is something that you never stop learning about. Actually, in high school there was a time that I was thinking about just concentrating on painting and I asked my music teacher, Mr. Sondberg, for advice and he encouraged me to stick with the music as well. So all my life I have been singing and painting.

- Tony Bennett

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Teacher, Art, School, Music Teacher

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.

- Michala Petri

topic: Mother, Teacher, Father, Music Teacher, Hearing Music

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

- Connie Britton

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

topic: Mother, Teacher, Singing, Music Teacher

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

topic: Teacher, Sex, Motherhood, Music Teacher

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

- Heather McDonald

topic: Teacher, College, Should, Going To College, Music Teacher

The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.

- George Ade

topic: Teacher, Bridges, Gaps, Music Teacher

I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.

- Anthony Holden

topic: Teacher, Old School, Literature, Music Teacher, Old Music

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.

- Max Roach

topic: Teacher, School, Home, Music Teacher

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

- Jon Gordon

topic: Teacher, Art, Classical Music, Music Teacher, Performing Arts

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.

- Carla Bley

topic: Teacher, Father, Years, Music Teacher