Miroslav Vitous Quotes

My parents were both high-school music teachers.

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

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

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.

Both of my parents are actually music teachers.

High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.

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.

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

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

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.

So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage.

My mom is an elementary-school music teacher. For her, music is an educational tool.

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

My dad was a teacher. He has a Masters in music. He taught elementary school, and he played gigs his whole life, and we lived good.

Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I got a lot of knowledge about everything from classical music to jazz to musicals.

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

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.

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.

My parents were both very musically inclined, they were both songwriters and musicians, so we grew up in the house singing music together, and R&B had a huge strong arm in the foundation of my career.

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general.

I went to music school, and I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student.

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.

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.

America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study.

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.