Yoko Ono Quotes

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.

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

It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.

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

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

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

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.

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

You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear.

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 more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

My parents were both high-school music teachers.

My parents met in music school, and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing.

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

Both of my parents are actually music teachers.

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 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.

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

I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

My reading of serious books about serious music is seriously compromised by the way that I can't understand any musical theory. Any mentions of D major or C minor are meaningless to me.

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