Music Teacher Quotes

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

  William Arthur Ward

  Teacher, Inspire, Great Music

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• Music is the universal language of mankind.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Music, Appreciation, Teacher

  1835 OutreMer. Also attributed to Christopher North (1865-1954).

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• Music can change the world.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Peace, World

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• 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

  Education, Teacher, Encouragement

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

  Kurt Masur

  Teacher, School, Two

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• 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

  Senior, Teacher, School

  Source: summerfelix.com

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• Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

  Jean Paul

  Funny, Music, Night

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

  Jill Sobule

  Teacher, Years, Parent

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Motivational, Music

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

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• 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

  Teacher, Drama, Inspiration

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• 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

  Teacher, Children, Real

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

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

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

  Elvis Presley

  Music, Witty, Humorous

  Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1984)

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

  Gioachino Rossini

  Music, Giving, Lists

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• 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

  Music, Learning, Cat

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• 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

  Teacher, Taken, School

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

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

  Edgar Wilson Nye

  Music, Sound, Opera

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• 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

  Teacher, School, Trophies

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

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• 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

  Mother, Teacher, Grandfather

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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

  Baseball, Teacher, Regret

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  David Ogden Stiers

  Teacher, School, High School

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• Both of my parents are actually music teachers.

  Charlie Day

  Teacher, Parent

  Interview with David Wolinsky, music.avclub.com. October 26, 2010.

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• Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

  Mark Twain

  Music, Witty, Humorous

  Autobiography (published in 1924).

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• 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

  Teacher, Encouragement, Drama

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

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• 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

  Teacher, School, Thinking

  Source: www.pmakid.com

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