Kiri Te Kanawa Quotes

I always think about stuff I learned, in any scene. Juilliard taught me a lot.

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

I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.

People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.

I do three things. I do teaching, I do conducting and I do playing. And each one of those sort of helps the other.

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.

Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world.

I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument.

I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City.

In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.

I took music theory for one year in high school and flunked all but one six-week period. That's because I couldn't read music, and the rest of the class was already eight or nine years into it. The teacher would sit down and hit a ten-fingered chord on the piano and you had to write all the notes down in about ten seconds. I just couldn't do it.

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.

I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

I first started actually playing guitar when I was eleven years old. I had some neighborhood friends who told me they were starting a band and needed a guitarist. I told my folks, and by the next day I had a guitar lesson set up with a local teacher.

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing.

I started off with violin, then I started learning guitar, then I went to piano. But I self-taught piano just because I enjoyed it. I've always really enjoyed music.

I didn't go to university, and so, every time that I work, I'm looking for a teacher in a way. I'm looking for people that I can learn from and to have the chance to work with people that I admire.

Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.

In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.

I've studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it.

It's definitely important for kids to learn in many different settings.

Writing was something that came easily to me and there's so many great producers who just teach you so much.

I think there's a fallacy that's been concocted by the music teachers' profession, to wit: that there's a certain sequence of events necessary in order to have the revealed truth about the way one produces a given effect on a given instrument.