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When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education. -- Andie MacDowell
And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background. -- Jon Secada
I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up. -- Kris Allen
Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system. -- Victoria Wood
Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk! -- Bette Midler
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art. -- Bill Walton
Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education. -- Lawrence Welk
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. -- Yoko Ono
A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school. -- Flea
I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories. -- John Francis
When I left South Africa in 1960 I was 20 years old. I wanted to try to get an education, and music education was not available for me in South Africa. -- Hugh Masekela
The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door. -- Richard Morris
The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations. -- Tom Wopat
At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall. -- Peter Maxwell Davies
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. -- Jon Secada
But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music because we are economising on music schools or musical education in schools. -- Johannes Rau
When it comes down to helping kids, a lot of ways for education to move forward is through music because that's exciting to kids. Reading books and going to a bookstore is not that exciting. -- Diplo
People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education. -- David Soul
Lucky enough, through the public school system, I had been able to have some music education, and that gave me something to focus on, and discipline - like a family to feel part of. There was a healthy family. -- Flea
Music is not a very stable business. It comes and it goes, and so does money, but your education stays with you for the rest of your life. When you have that education, and you have nothing to fall back on, you can get a get a job anywhere. -- Selena
Education, for me, has helped me in my music. -- Bob Livingston
Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education. -- Plato
Education is extremely important, especially in my business, the music business. -- Ludacris
Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education. -- Aristotle
Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music. -- Afrojack
I have a greater goal - to empower young people through music education. -- Ruben Studdard
Education gives you lights to see, wings to fly, and music to sing. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education. -- David Cook
One of the most beautiful things we can give our child is music education. -- Gloria Estefan
Education isn't just about feeding the brain. Art and music feed the heart and soul. -- Julie Garwood
My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education. -- Renee Fleming
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. -- Plato
The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music. -- Gerald R. Ford
I really got the best of education , and arts and music and summer camp. I had it great. -- Jill Stein
Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young. -- Aristotle
Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music. -- Aloe Blacc
Music education is very important. I think that for me growing up, I was disciplined very hard at home. -- Sean Mackin
Growing up in music motivated me. I applied that to my education and it made me a better person. -- Raekwon
Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world. -- Daniel Barenboim
In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student... I was always complaining that music education was too academic. -- Bjork
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'm a big fan of music, I'm a student of music, and I just wanna learn and keep enhancing my education about the music. -- Troy Andrews
A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills. -- George Santayana
I like to say that I had a really good musical education because it was inclusive of all styles of music and I like it like that. -- Joe Louis Walker
Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it -- Plato
I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything. -- Mayer Hawthorne
I believe education in music, theater, dance, and the visual arts... is part of a well-rounded education and can provide so much joy, now and in the future. -- Rudy Giuliani
My music education was oral. I was resistant to scores and things like that. In Jewish religious music, there are no scores. You learn everything by rote, by ear, by repeating. -- Charlemagne Palestine

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