Shankar Mahadevan Quotes

Teaching the guitar is a constant source of inspiration. I sometimes think I get more out of the lessons than my students.

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 remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.

I had a friend who had been teaching music for a long time, and he knew a bunch of teachers, so I just put up the money and started a school.

If you look at an old piece of sheet music, there's all kinds of text on it, there are ads, there are proclamations of the greatest songs' success, there's artwork. So there is a tactile, physical experience of learning the song and the way it's notated.

I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.

I'm really passionate about music.

I teach musical theater three days a week at the school that my wife and I graduated from.

It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.

I love to sing. I'm learning guitar right now.

They gave me four weeks, and I asked if the first week could be just music with the two main conductors. So, the conductors came over to my home, and we worked in the music room, and I learned my two little songs.

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.

Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.

The crudest thing I've done as a teacher was to require students to write a national anthem for their country and sing it themselves.

Music is a passion of mine. I'm always listening, always learning.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without plowing it.

I love working with children, and I love music.

I'm just a student. I'm learning all the time, and, like anyone, I'm just looking for words I can use and a hummable melody.

I am a professor of astronomy and physics at Yale University, where I teach an introductory class in cosmology. I see the deficiencies that first-year students show up with.

Music's a hobby to me.

Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.

As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.

But more classrooms and more teachers are not enough. We must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as it grows in size. This means better training for our teachers. It means preparing youth to enjoy their hours of leisure as well as their hours of labor. It means exploring new techniques of teaching, to find new ways to stimulate the love of learning and the capacity for creation.

Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.