Victoria Wood Quotes

I think music should be the basis of an education, not just something you do once a week.

In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.

Learning music is a birthright. And you have to start young.

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.

My mum was very good at making me take up musical instruments, so although there was no popular music she made me learn the recorder when I was three, the violin when I was five and the piano when I was seven. I took up the guitar myself when I was 14.

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.

I have a greater goal - to empower young people through music education.

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.

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.

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.

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.

I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

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

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.

I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that I write. I consider this one of the most vital aspects of my work.

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 were both high-school music teachers.

The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.

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

Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.

Music in our schools is considered to be an extra-curricular activity in which you teach your students a few patriotic songs and bhajans that children are not interested in.

Without music in schools' curriculum, there is a void for young people to express, explore, and experience music.

I studied music at Dakhhini.