Luciano Pavarotti Quotes

My mum was very good at making me take up musical instruments, so although there was no popular music she made me learn the recorder when I was three, the violin when I was five and the piano when I was seven. I took up the guitar myself when I was 14.

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.

My main goal, and it's a big one, is that every child has a chance to get close to music - as a right - that as they have access to food, health, and education, they get the chance to have art and culture - especially 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.

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.

I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.

I think it's important to learn instruments, whenever one has a little space. Be eager to learn and love your instrument.

Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?

My mother always took my brothers and me to music lessons. There were six children. Our parents attended our concerts and encouraged us to study and enjoy many different types of music.

I like doing music. I like singing. I love all music. Music kind of goes hand in hand with acting anyway.

I started taking music lessons and singing when I was about ten.

Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

I learned my first songs when I was six and seven, and when I was eight years old, I won a local talent show.

Without music in schools' curriculum, there is a void for young people to express, explore, and experience music.

Learning music is a birthright. And you have to start young.

Learning music must be made easy and fun.

Music changes kids, and kids change the world.

I know as far as I'm concerned, I'm getting really excited about writing, and I'm taking guitar and vocal lessons.

Inspiring girls to write their stories and play their own instruments is something I'm passionate about, as it's not championed.

If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that child.

Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.

Theatre can transform a child's life, just as an early cultural experience whether with opera, ballet, music or art is a wonderful thing because it opens the door to a life-long experience, a life-long enjoyment.

Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the beginning of their lives.

All these children [who did not have music and art classes at school] go out into the world without knowing that there is anything other than what they have. Of course, children do look at TV, but what does it give them?