Conservatory Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Summer, College, Casting

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• 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

  Pride, Flames, Wind

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• 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

  Teacher, Kids, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  College, Years, Four

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

  Mark Morris

  Opinion, Lows, Aspect

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• 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

  Two, Piano, Baltimore

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

  Billy Joel

  Musician, Young, Pursue

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

  Bernie Worrell

  Music, Boston, Lessons

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• 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

  Teacher, Heart, Unlimited Potential

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• 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

  Spiritual, Simple, Agency

  "Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race".

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

  Placido Domingo

  Years, Cities, Two

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

  Cecilia Bartoli

  School, Rome, Music In Schools

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

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• 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

  Nice, Boston, People

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

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• 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

  Important, Acting, Different

  "Sean Durkin and Elizabeth Olsen". Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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

  Wendell Pierce

  Years, San Francisco, Three

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• I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.

  Lance Reddick

  Studying Music, Grew Up, Study

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

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• 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

  People, World, Opera

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• 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

  Writing, Thinking, Color

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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

  Garth Greenwell

  Opera, Left

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  College, Years, Musician

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• 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

  Queens, Inspiration, Journey

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• 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

  Fun, Night, Class

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Dad, Crazy, War

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

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• 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

  Teacher, School, People

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