Music Lessons Quotes:

Where words fail, music speaks.

- Hans Christian Andersen

source: Hans Christian Andersen (1876). “Stories for the Young”

topic: Inspirational, Music, Listening, Music Life, Music Therapy

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Music, Wisdom, Silence, Jazz And Life, Music Life

Music gives a soul to the universe.

- Plato

topic: Music, Wings, Giving, Jazz And Life, Music Life

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Motivational, Music, Wisdom, Sounds Of Silence, Jazz And Life

I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.

- John Cage

source: John Cage (2011). “Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition”, Wesleyan University Press

topic: Sound, Lessons, Remember, Music Lessons

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

You are the music while the music lasts.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Music, Dope, Lasts, Jazz And Life, Musical Life

My mother always took my brothers and me to music lessons. There were six children. Our parents attended our concerts and encouraged us to study and enjoy many different types of music.

- Wynton Marsalis

topic: Mother, Brother, Children, Music Lessons, Different Types Of Music

Unfortunately, I never played an instrument. I can't blame my parents, but I wish I had had music lessons. It's odd because I think I have a good sense of rhythm, as they say in some fields. But I don't know anything about music.

- Frederick Wiseman

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Music Lessons

Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.

- Lawrence Welk

source: Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1971). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”, Prentice Hall Direct

topic: Dream, Lessons, Speak, Music Lessons

I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.

- Ricky Jay

topic: Kids, Parent, Lessons, Accordions, Music Lessons

I never took a music lesson in my life, it just came naturally.

- Wynonna Judd

topic: Life Lesson, Lessons, Music Lessons

Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it.

- Mike Krzyzewski

source: "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

topic: Sports, Play, Parent, Music Lessons, Playing Sports

Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano.

- Woody Allen

topic: Music, Years, Play, Music Lessons, Psychoanalysis

I was extremely fortunate to live around the corner from a recording studio and to be chosen to have a paper route to make enough money to pay for the music lessons. I was one of the chosen few to have a job and to walk through the curtain at Stax Records was just an amazing thing for me to do at age 14.

- Booker T. Jones

topic: Jobs, Age, Records, Recording Studio, Music Lessons

I had some music lessons and my mum played every instrument but the guitar.

- Brandy Clark

topic: Guitar, Lessons, Instruments, Music Lessons

I started going to a piano teacher at 5 years old, but pretty soon I started picking things out on my own and stopped taking music lessons. I never could read music very well, but I've still been doing it.

- Mose Allison

topic: Teacher, Piano, Years, Music Lessons, Piano Teachers

The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.

- Amiri Baraka

source: Imamu Amiri Baraka (1984). “Daggers and javelins: essays, 1974-1979”, William Morrow & Co

topic: Moving, Reality, Blue, Music Lessons, Afros

So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.

- June Allyson

topic: Husband, Wife, Roles, Music Lessons, Mannerisms

Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldnt consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.

- Mary Lou Williams

topic: Play, House, Done, Music Lessons, House Music