Miroslav Vitous Quotes

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

There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.

My parents were both high-school music teachers.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I didn't go to a conservatoire, and I have certain low opinions of certain aspects of the conservatory experience.

After a couple years of occasional lessons with Pass I moved to Boston to attend the New England Conservatory.

I had a lot of older musicians looking out for me, teaching me, and showing me things when they saw how interested I was in music from a young age. They would take me to the side and just play some things in my ear, and I would try to play it back to them.

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

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.

My high school teacher, Reggie Andrews, was a huge factor in my learning my instrument. He didn't play bass, but it was the part where he gave me a knowledgeable perspective of what it was that I was doing.

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.

I always jump at the chance to mentor kids when it comes to music.

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

First of all I listen to music. I like music.

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

I love music. I listen to a lot of it.