Joshua Bell Quotes

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

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

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.

My parents were both high-school music teachers.

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

I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.

My mom is an elementary-school music teacher. For her, music is an educational tool.

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

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.

It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.

I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.

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

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

Government should take necessary steps to add music into school syllabus and impart knowledge to the students.

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.

I definitely make time for music.

There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.

I think there are people who really always have and always will care about the quality of music in general, about the sound of the music, things like that.

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 studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.

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

Both of my parents are actually music teachers.

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

I am permanently a student of people who make great songs, but besides sort of learning by absorption, I just love listening to music, hearing what's going on, hearing new things or new old things.

Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music.