Nina Simone Quotes

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

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

I don't much listen to music as I study it: who's doing what, who wrote it.

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.

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

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.

My parents met in music school, and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing.

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.

I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.

Both of my parents are actually music teachers.

Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.

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

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.

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 almost chose the career of an ethnomusicologist because I was so fascinated by that music. It gives a different feeling of time.

I studied classical music in high school.

I come from a small village and have had no formal training in music or any classes from the masters of Indian classical music.

When I wanted to be a music teacher, I wanted to help people through voice. Now, I get to help people out through song.

I'm a big fan of music, I'm a student of music, and I just wanna learn and keep enhancing my education about the music.

My mother was a very talented pianist, and she was a music teacher who hated to teach music, actually, but she loved to play, so I was brought up with Chopin, Debussy and Mozart.

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

When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.

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.