J. Michael Bishop Quotes

They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.

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

I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.

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.

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

My parents were both high-school music teachers.

I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.

When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.

Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.

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

I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear.

I love every kind of music.

I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

My brother was a fantastic cheerleader for my development as a musician. He was almost 10 years older than me and would really push me to develop as a songwriter.

The expectation was I would get married and become a mother and settle down. We didn't have any role models. We saw teachers and doctors and nurses, but I'm not a teacher, and there was no possibility of being a doctor or a nurse. I had to work and find my own way.

I really don't know anything about music. I don't really listen to it. I don't know anything about the history of music.

My main object is to write, to keep learning. I always try to perfect my composition. But I do like writing film and opera music. I believe that it fulfills the needs of particular situations.

In Berkley, they have academic studies on all genres of music including rock and jazz, but in India, we don't have serious academic research and studies on film music; it is such an interesting area of study.

My mother, who is a Carnatic musician, started a school for children when I was around three, and I grew up listening to her teaching students.

I chose music and that's what I do.

I never really thought of music as a particularly social thing. I experienced music through recordings as opposed to concerts. It just makes you think about the way things are put together, the way things are written as opposed to the showbusiness of something onstage, so no regrets there.

I decided to study music my last year in high school.

I realized that music was the only thing I really thought about - music and writing.

I just like music.