Nina Simone Quotes

I was trained on piano - that was part of grade school and high school.

I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

I have two extraordinary daughters, who, I can say proudly, are doing very well in school and in piano. Daughters are a father's joy.

I teach musical theater three days a week at the school that my wife and I graduated from.

I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers.

I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on. I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.

Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music.

I remember learning how to play 'The Fool On The Hill' on piano when I was in maybe fifth grade.

I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.

My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.

While my friends were discussing Pearl Harbor as the country's problem, I took it personally. It dawned on me that the Japanese attack could be my ticket out of high school.

The most influential time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons.

I didn't try out for bands when I was younger. I got into guitars intensely a couple of years into playing so much by the time I was graduating high school I was accepted into Berklee College of Music.

I studied voice and piano as a child, although, at least with voice, you start over at puberty, because your voice completely changes.

You can finish school, and even make it easy - but you never finish your education, and it's seldom easy.

It will help at every state along the road to learning. For the pre-school years we will help needy children become aware of the excitement of learning.

School is a good place - it ain't for everybody, but I think it's for most people.

I was really fortunate that I went to a high school where we actually had a film theory program.

Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I was hearing the fundamentals of playing the piano, what notes are, and all those things very early on.

"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.

Affirmative action is not going to be the long-term solution to the problems of race in America, because, frankly, if you've got 50 percent of African-American or Latino kids dropping out of high school, it doesn't really matter what you do in terms of affirmative action. Those kids aren't going to college.

Animation wasn't my love, but drawing was. I loved drawing, and when it came time to graduate from high school, I looked around and it was like, "Wow, I don't really want to study math. I don't really want to study science. I don't really want to study literature. Is there a place where I can go and draw cartoons?"

I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things. I don’t want to be a man.

I was homeschooled growing up, and we fantasized about high school, about what that experience was going to be like.