Music Curriculum Quotes

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

Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music.

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

I'm a band leader and substitute teacher, and then one day they bring me into a music class, and I'm like, 'Wait a minute, I know this stuff.' And the principal is like, 'Just throw the video in and call it a day,' and I'm like, 'That's not good enough. I want these kids to know what it's like to have a gig and all that kind of stuff.'

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

The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music, but I think that was talking over a ten year or fifteen year time span.

I would be devastated if my son could not have music as part of his curriculum in school. It should not be a choice between culture and technical training - well-rounded students and graduates will make appropriate choices for their careers, but they must also be trained to make appropriate social choices.

Too many schools across the country have cut back heavily on their music curricula.

Why English music is being taught in some schools? The government should make arrangements to promote Indian classical music among students.

Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.

Government should take necessary steps to add music into school syllabus and impart knowledge to the students.

I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools as possible across this country and across the world. I think that it's a lost art form because kids aren't as exposed to it as maybe they used to be, or should be. I was exposed heavily to jazz and that's why I love it.

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

I had a friend who had been teaching music for a long time, and he knew a bunch of teachers, so I just put up the money and started a school.

My parents were both high-school music teachers.

We can teach about hip-hop history, we can teach about legends, hip-hop theory. It's been around so long that text books can be written about it. This is a perfect time to capitalize on and get kids excited about music education.

My teacher wanted me to do 'Hot Cross Buns,' but all I wanted to learn was 'Island in the Sun' by Weezer.

You cannot help but notice that schools that take music seriously tend to be more academically successful.

Without music in schools' curriculum, there is a void for young people to express, explore, and experience music.