Khalid Quotes

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

My parents were both high-school music teachers.

Both of my parents are actually music teachers.

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

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.

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.

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 love music. I still play cello a few times a week.

I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.

If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for.

So many schools are getting rid of music programs and it's really sad because I know that when I started singing and stuff it was something that I always wanted to do and I never believed in myself to be able to do it.

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

Going to college and studying music is not a bad idea at all. I don't know if you can go to college and be taught heart.

Music is my biggest passion aside from anything else.

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.

I love to play music. I'm terrible at it, but I love learning about it .

I don't have any hobbies. Music is my hobby.

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

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.

I have always been into music. That's my number one passion.

I've always listened to music, since I was really, really young.

When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.

When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.