J. Cole Quotes

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band.

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 just started as a part of the public school music program. I took lessons at the school every Friday and was a part of the school band. I was just a normal kid taking instrumental lessons at school, nothing special.

My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.

High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

I grew up playing classical violin and a lot of Bach and Mozart and the things that Einstein loved.

Too many schools across the country have cut back heavily on their music curricula.

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

Most kids are very seriously interested in something - friends, math, shopping, sports. For me it happened to be music and the violin. I had the chance to pursue it without having it get in the way of my life.

I was fortunate enough in my public school that they had a full music program, and no one escaped it. It was treated as a subject that was as important as everything else, and I believe it is.

I learnt violin at school and hated it. I wish I'd learnt guitar or piano.

I'm not musical myself.

Yes, I have been studying piano since I was six. Classical, jazz, compositional, Broadway, everything. I just love it all.

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

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our programs than many other places.

We are excited about the music, past and present and future, and are really looking forward to playing.

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

I'm a fan of music in general.

I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time.

I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.

I've been playing since I was eight years old.

I always had a fascination with music.