Music Education Quotes

Music education is very important. I think that for me growing up, I was disciplined very hard at home.

When I was 4 years old my mother put me into an early music education school. That's where they taught you perfect pitch and harmony and how to write music and all that. At that time, one of the homeworks was to listen to all the sounds and the noise of a day and transfer that into musical notes.

We can teach about hip-hop history, we can teach about legends, hip-hop theory. It's been around so long that text books can be written about it. This is a perfect time to capitalize on and get kids excited about music education.

Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it

I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

I write music with an exclamation point!

I have a greater goal - to empower young people through music education.

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

You know, and the fact that Nina Simone had to start playing in clubs and sing because her parents had moved north to support her music education. You know, so she had to sing. She had to make a living 'cause she was supporting her family. So poverty and race put her in this place which, you know, created enormous success, but it's not what her psyche was all about.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Music education can help spark a child's imagination or ignite a lifetime of passion. When you provide a child with new worlds to explore and challenges to tackle, the possibilities are endless. Music education should not be a privilege for a lucky few, it should be a part of every child's world of possiblity.

One of the most beautiful things we can give our child is music education.

If you can walk, you can run.

And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

I sometimes tell students the only guarantee you've got is the music and no-one can take that away from you. Only you can take that away from you-by not practicing and not putting in enough elbow grease. The more you put into your music, the more your passion for it will grow.

Elementary and high school students will still be tested under the new law. There just won't be so much riding on the scores. Also the arts didn't disappear under the old law, No Child Left Behind. But, Christopher Woodside of the National Association for Music Education says with so much time spent testing math and reading, the arts suffered.

I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.

The world is in great need of more music education. When students play music, it allows a part of their artistic mind to express itself, which is very important in helping to balance a child intellectually, spiritually, and emotionally.

Teaching peers is one of the best ways to develop mastery.

The strength of every democracy is measured by its commitment to the arts.

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.

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

The rapidly evolving global economy demands a dynamic and creative workforce. The arts and its related businesses are responsible for billions of dollars in cultural exports for this country. It is imperative that we continue to support the arts and arts education both on the national and local levels. The strength of every democracy is measured by its commitment to the arts.

Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.

The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college.

The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.

The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.

Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them - a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.

Music can change the world.

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

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

If music be the food of love, play on.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.

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.

I was born with music inside me

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.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.

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

In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student... I was always complaining that music education was too academic.

Where words fail, music speaks.

When I left South Africa in 1960 I was 20 years old. I wanted to try to get an education, and music education was not available for me in South Africa.