Bjork Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

I studied classical music for a year. Then, I studied jazz for a year at the New School, and then I got kicked out. You had to go to your class, so I don't know if that counts as studying. I didn't study jazz. I was supposed to.

I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin.

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

America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study.

I love all kinds of 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.

I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.

I've never loved listening to music.

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.

As much as I like to explore the world, I explore music - from classical to rock.

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.