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I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome. -- Cecilia Bartoli
I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City. -- Placido Domingo
I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years. -- Wendell Pierce
I trained as an actor in London and went to Mountview Conservatory, as it was called then, and lived there for eleven years. -- Josh Dallas
Conservatory training is so much. There's so much emphasis on playing perfectly in tune and being perfect and doing everything as it's written. -- Lucia Micarelli
When I was 15, 16, I studied with Stella Adler at the Conservatory of Acting, then I stopped again and went to the Actors Studio when I was 18. -- Robert De Niro
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. -- Flea
I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11. -- Tori Amos
I did a lot of commercial and theater work when I got out of school and was living in Dallas, and I moved to Chicago to go through the Second City Conservatory Program. -- Allison Tolman
The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people. -- Flea
There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a workshop in Boston at the New England Conservatory, which was really nice. -- Charlie Haden
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. -- Flea
In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on 'formalism.' There was a bulletin board in the Moscow Conservatory. They posted the decree, which said Shostakovich's compositions and Prokofiev's were no longer to be played. -- Mstislav Rostropovich
Genetically, I have tons of musical background in my life. My mother's father was a famous Weimar-era composer, Ernst Toch. My father's mother was the head of the Vienna Conservatory's piano department. It all canceled out in my case. I'm completely hopeless in music. -- Lawrence Weschler
At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and wanted to do my own stuff. You know, towards the end of college I had actually planned to go to the Boston Conservatory of Music for musical theater. -- Seth MacFarlane
I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater. -- Rachael MacFarlane
I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. -- Bernie Worrell
After a couple years of occasional lessons with Pass I moved to Boston to attend the New England Conservatory. -- Mark White
In fact although I have studied in a Conservatory the classical piano, I do not consider myself a classical pianist. -- Richard Clayderman
Clark Terry is an American Master. I love to listen to him, particularly 'Mumbles.' I was so delighted when we received degrees together, along with Edward Kennedy, at the New England Conservatory in 1997. -- Aretha Franklin
I loved Queen, Journey, Fleetwood Mac, and people like Barbara Streisand. The thing with me is that classical music was also an inspiration. I took piano lessons at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels for 10 years. -- Lara Fabian
Thus having been undeservedly accepted at the Conservatory as a professor, I soon became one of its best and possibly its very best pupil, judging by the quantity and value of the information it gave me! -- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on formalism. There was a bulletin board in the Moscow Conservatory. They posted the decree, which said Shostakovichs compositions and Prokofievs were no longer to be played. -- Mstislav Rostropovich
I started in high school with a teacher there. I also took lessons at the Conservatory of Music in Detroit. Detroit was very motivating. There were a lot of local people who inspired me like Kenny Burrell, Paul Chambers, Roy Brooks, Donald Byrd, etc. -- Yusef Lateef
My favourite piece of architecture is the Royal Conservatory of Music on Bloor (273 Bloor Street West). When they cleaned up the old building a few years back, the stonework just knocked me out. It is a great melding of the Old Toronto and the new. -- Andy Barrie
My dad studied at the American Conservatory in Chicago, so he lived on all those streets. He said the war probably saved his life because he'd have ended up a dead musician, with all the crazy stuff they did on Rush Street back in the day. -- Kim Basinger
I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory. -- Lance Reddick
I was at Second City L.A., going through the conservatory, and I graduated in 2004 and I got 'SNL' in 2005. -- Bill Hader
I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school. -- Emeril Lagasse
When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory. -- Billy Joel
I've never taken a lesson in my life, and I can play every instrument there is. I play by ear, but I can fool anybody into thinking I went to some conservatory of music. -- Dick Dale
I worked in theater my whole life. My mom was a drama teacher at my middle school. In high school, I was Drama Club President every year, and then I auditioned for conservatory acting programs. -- Jenn Proske
Studying music in a conservatory would be stifling for me, although I respect people who can do it. And by no means am I an expert at notating music or music theory - that's not really my world. -- Beck
When I composed, I heard my music played by the orchestra within days of completion of the score. No master at a conservatory, no matter how revered, can teach as much by verbal criticism as can a cold and analytical hearing of one's own music being played. -- Andre Previn
Because I was from the Midwest and untrained, I was completely open and ready to try anything. Many of my classmates were cynical and jaded; some already had conservatory training, and they were there simply to get that Yale stamp of approval, which they saw as a career stepping-stone. -- Laila Robins
I went to drama school for four years at Carnegie Mellon, conservatory training before television comedy. I was doing Shakespeare and Chekov plays. It's about delivering on the promise of a $100,000 education and taking the shackles off and trying the hand at my craft. I'm thrilled with what I've seen so far. -- Josh Gad
I was born and grew up in Phoenix, and I left there when I was 17 to go to Interlochen Arts Academy - a boarding school in Michigan - for a year, and then I went to college for a year at The Boston Conservatory and landed the 'Spring Awakening' tour midway through my freshman year, which was pretty cool. -- Kimiko Glenn
My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct. -- Edith Piaf
Because I had been in conservatory for so long, I was jealous of my friends in bands. -- Nico Muhly
There's nothing like a good conservatory drama school to really get you ready for the work force. -- Abby Brammell
I studied opera, and when I left conservatory I told myself I would never sing in public again. -- Garth Greenwell
I didn't go to a conservatoire, and I have certain low opinions of certain aspects of the conservatory experience. -- Mark Morris
Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day. -- Ryan Sypek
I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught. -- Tim Heidecker
I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are really awful songs, but I guess they saw something in them. -- Regina Spektor

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