Bernie Worrell Quotes

I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.

Just so people know, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music is not at all about celebrity or fame or being a star. It's an academic music school.

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

After a couple years of occasional lessons with Pass I moved to Boston to attend the New England Conservatory.

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

I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.

I studied music at Dakhhini.

I had teachers in high school to point me in the direction of the University of Indiana School of Music, and after IU, I went on to study at the Academy of Arts in Philadelphia. I graduated in 2006.

The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about being a rock star. It's about the fundamentals of music, theory and technique on a particular instrument, and playing in an ensemble or private setting.

I love classical music. Yes, I was in a conservatory when I was younger and played guitar and all that stuff, so I also love rock.

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.

The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people.

I think music should be the basis of an education, not just something you do once a week.

I didn't go to a conservatoire, and I have certain low opinions of certain aspects of the conservatory experience.

I feel that in order to learn as much about music as I would like to learn, I would need more than one lifetime.

I never went to music school.

When I went to college, it became more of a hobby, and that's when I think I got the realest music education. It wasn't something that I had to do. It wasn't an obligation.

It's like I've been in music school my whole life.

Yeah, I would go to New England Conservatory a lot. My orchestra teacher ran a program for minority students there.

First of all I listen to music. I like music.

I've always listened to music, since I was really, really young.

I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my kind and my generation. I thought it was just old people talking.

Studying music in a conservatory would be stifling for me, although I respect people who can do it. And by no means am I an expert at notating music or music theory - that's not really my world.

I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear.