Paul Gilbert Quotes

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 think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.

Whenever I do my concerts, I try to do master classes or students.

My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I was in the choir at school.

But without the experience of actually singing or playing these things yourself, you don't have the same kind of involvement or understanding of what these musical moves mean. And that is a very big problem in addressing the future of music.

My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.

I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School.

My mother always took my brothers and me to music lessons. There were six children. Our parents attended our concerts and encouraged us to study and enjoy many different types of music.

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.

When I was 17, I taught music; I had 65 students a week, and I did that for a year. So that's pretty regular. But it was great to give the gift of music to people, seeing them learn. It's great to influence young people in a creative way.

My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill.

In 2010, I had been playing guitar for 50 years.

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

I've been playing since I was eight years old.

I started taking music lessons and singing when I was about ten.

I've been studying on my own. I'm not really trained. I went to school for about a year and a half. I never really studied music, but, I mean, I did. I studied for two years, maybe.

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

Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child.

So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask, 'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'

I studied violin when I was very young.

I learned to read music when I was 10 and did piano and took lessons.

A music teacher. It was in the inner city at a school called Horace Mann. I think I was most effective when the kids pissed me off.

I'm a band leader and substitute teacher, and then one day they bring me into a music class, and I'm like, 'Wait a minute, I know this stuff.' And the principal is like, 'Just throw the video in and call it a day,' and I'm like, 'That's not good enough. I want these kids to know what it's like to have a gig and all that kind of stuff.'

I started playing the piano when I was 6 years old 'cause my folks tried to get me away from the gramophone. And I just - I lived for music since I could think. And they got me piano lessons. So by the time I was 13, I was quite an accomplished piano player and musician.

K.G. Sathar, a neighbour, was my guru. He taught me the violin and Hindustani music.