Musical Education Quotes

• Music is about communication, creativity, and cooperation, and by studying music in schools, students have the opportunity to build on these skills, enrich their lives, and experience the world from a new perspective.

  William J. Clinton

  Communication, Creativity, School

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  I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

  Ray Charles

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Music

  Ray Charles (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”

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• I was born with music inside me

  Ray Charles

  Musical Life, Inspirational Music, Musician

  Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.11, Da Capo Press

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• I like to say that I had a really good musical education because it was inclusive of all styles of music and I like it like that.

  Joe Louis Walker

  Musical, Style

  Source: magazine.100percentrock.com

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• Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence on the human actions and passions, restoring 'Pristine Harmony' of the souls' faculties. He applied the same means to the curing of diseases of both body and mind.

  Porphyry

  Inspiration, Mean, Healing

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• You begin to see that all of these things are connected: The kind of cuts that mean less environmental protection are also the kind of cuts that mean less musical education for the schools and that also mean more overcrowded schools.

  Robert Hass

  School, Mean, Cutting

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Father, Musical, Incredibles

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• I always wanted to sing, I always loved to sing. As a child I was singing all the time, and my parents were singing all the time, but not the traditional songs because they were very Christian; the Christian Sámis learnt from the missionaries and the priests that the traditional songs were from the Devil, so they didn't teach them to their children, but they were singing the Christian hymns all the time. So I think I got my musical education in this way. And of course the traditional songs were always under the hymns, because it doesn't just disappear, the traditional way of singing.

  Mari Boine

  Christian, Song, Children

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• The Brits was an amazing place to get a broad musical education. But I never really thought I was going to be a singer because there was always someone better than me in my class.

  Katie Melua

  Class, Musical, Singers

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• I studied music for my first two years in college. When I went to UC Berkeley, I failed the admission requirements to get into the music school there, so I studied communications and public policy, which actually were a greater engine for my career than a musical education would have been. If I had gotten into the music department at Berkeley, I'd probably be a timpanist in an orchestra right now.

  Stewart Copeland

  Communication, School, College

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• Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education.

  Miles Davis

  Musical, Carter, Ought

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• A lot of my musical education was done simply by listening. If you really want to excel on your instrument, it's almost impossible to not develop and analyze what you see and hear and to incorporate all of it into your own playing.

  David Finckel

  Musical, Listening, Done

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• Two years of close association with some of the best (as well as some of the worst) tunes in the world was a better musical education than any amount of sonatas and fugues.

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  Years, Two, Musical

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• I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Growing Up, Rocks, Parent

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• Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days.

  Evan Parker

  Air, People, Musical

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• Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.

  Johannes Rau

  Musical, Training, Needs

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• But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music because we are economising on music schools or musical education in schools.

  Johannes Rau

  School, People, Musical

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• A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.

  George Santayana

  Education, People, Judgement

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