Gary Burton Quotes

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

It just makes you a better artist when you're with people who are great artists themselves. Being around Kanye, soaking up all the knowledge, all the stuff he got.

Mike Watt and I had the same teacher. Mr. Tanaka.

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.

The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.

All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.

They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

I always think the relationship between a teacher and a student should be short and maybe violent. You don't need to spend years together. All you need is an explosion: you are the material to explode; the teacher is the detonator.

Manga uses Japanese traditional structures in how to teach the student and to transmit a very direct message. You learn from the teacher by watching from behind his back. The whole teacher-master thing is part of Asian culture, I think.

One of my favorite sayings is, 'Much have I learned from my teachers, but even more from my friends and even more from my students.'

Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

Although the teachers or the students are not the same, the person in charge of education is being formed or re-formed as he/she teaches, and the person who is being taught forms him/herself in the process. ...There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.

If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.

Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.

I have a responsibility to pass on to the next generation what I learned from my teachers, ... It keeps me young and reminds me where I came from. Teaching young artists is like giving water to a flower.

The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery.

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

It's funny, I think after you are a star like Sting and you no longer think you need any guidance or aid - it would be great to see those stars work with other songwriters.

They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons.

A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.

Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.