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Both of my parents are actually music teachers. -- Charlie Day
High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it. -- David Ogden Stiers
I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher. -- Connie Britton
Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd. -- Roger Ebert
When a music teacher that I had at school was taken ill and we had a variety show and I had to fill in - that's when I realized I had a voice. -- Lily Allen
My parents were both high-school music teachers. -- Renee Fleming
I started out as a music teacher; I never planned on becoming an actress. -- Li Bingbing
The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin. -- George Ade
If every school would hire two more music teachers, we would need two fewer police officers. -- Kurt Masur
A mediocre music teacher tells. A good music teacher explains. A superior music teacher demonstrates. A great music teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward
My music teacher told me that she didn't even know why I was going to college - I should be a stand-up. -- Heather McDonald
I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello. -- Anthony Holden
I remember I was in music class, I was a senior in high school, and my music teacher was like, "You should be a stand-up comic, you could imitate anyone. -- Heather McDonald
I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano. -- Carla Bley
My father is a violinist and my mother is a pianist, so I've been hearing music all my life. I started playing at three and had my first music teacher at five. -- Michala Petri
Both of my parents are actually music teachers. I think I got to a certain age where I decided I'd rather be a baseball player than a musician. Now, like most kids, I regret it. -- Charlie Day
The music teacher thought I sang like a goat. It was kind of devastating. A few months after that, I participated in a music contest and won. I took my little trophy to school and rubbed it in his nose. I said to him, "What do you say now?" -- Shakira
My first singing role was as Susanna in a school production in a shortened form of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. I loved to sing and I was given lots of encouragement by a wonderful music teacher Mrs Ann Hill and by my parents who suggested I go to drama school. -- Elaine Paige
I was 13 years old at music school talking to my teacher. I can't quite remember what it was I was trying to describe, but I do remember my music teacher saying to me, 'Do you have synesthesia?' In hindsight, it seems a little presumptuous of her to think a little boy in Essex would know what synesthesia was. -- Dev Hynes
The boyfriend of the student music teacher came in: "Hey, kids, this is a real Air Force pilot." I asked him something to the effect of how it felt to be dropping bombs on children in Vietnamese villages. And it got very icy in there all of a sudden, and finally the teacher said, "Oh, well, Eric reads a lot of newspapers. Next question." -- Jello Biafra
My mother was a music teacher and my grandfather was a professor of music, and there was a lot of singing in the family. It wasn't like trained singing or anything like that, but it was singing. -- Ed Droste
It's old, very old I think. Made up long ago in our hills. What my music teacher calls a mountain air. But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece of time we call today. -- Suzanne Collins
Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure. -- Aaron Lazar
About 13-14 years ago, I went back to my alma mater, Fairfax High School, and ran into the music teacher. She invited me to come speak to the kids about the viability of a music career. When I went into the room where I used to play every day in a big orchestra, they had nothing! -- Flea
I remember Alicia Keys and Usher had released a song called 'My Boo,' and my music teacher got me to sing a duet with a friend of mine, and I remember being so nervous because I loved to sing, but I could never fathom singing by myself. And when I did that, I remember how proud I was of myself. I was 12. -- Seinabo Sey
We had a music teacher in sixth grade, and I saw her tune her guitar. I said, 'Whoa. There's a certain way to do this.' I bought a packet of strings - some of mine were broken - and had her tune it for me. For a while, I just kept it like that. But I got the Internet finally, when I was 14, and started learning. -- Brittany Howard
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. -- John Ruskin
Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music. -- Pat Boone
There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans. -- Helen Thomas
Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world. -- Nina Simone
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. -- Miroslav Vitous
America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study. -- Anton Seidl
Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teacher's diploma. -- Sarah Sutton
When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything. -- Carla Bley
I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's music, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs. When I was with Ralph Stanley I learned a lot from him. -- Ricky Skaggs
When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music, and the same teacher invited me back to speak at the school. I don't say that to brag, I just want to be an example. -- Big Sean
It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano. -- Birdy
I really think music in school is vital. Some pivotal moments in my life were my childhood scholastic experiences with music - teachers who found out I could sing, and encouraged me, or teachers who turned me on to music or bands I hadn't yet heard. -- Dave Smalley
My parents being Bengali, we always had music in our house. My nani was a trained classical singer, who taught my mum, who, in turn, was my first teacher. Later I would travel almost 70 kms to the nearest town, Kota, to learn music from my guru Mahesh Sharmaji, who was also the principal of the music college there. -- Shreya Ghoshal
I used to take musical instruments home from elementary school. There were some music teachers there - we all learned instruments. A lot of us got started in public schools. Charlie Parker and Bud Powell, for example. But now there are no more music teachers in public elementary schools. It's like (Senator) Moynihan said, 'benign neglect.' Just let it rot and fester. -- Max Roach
Music is the ultimate teacher. -- Wassily Kandinsky
When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music. -- Big Sean
As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing. -- Sheryl Crow
My mom is a gym teacher, and shes not musically inclined, but she always wanted to help me out with music as best she could. -- Annaleigh Ashford
Heavy Metal is the most conservative of all loud music. Let's face it, not even a gym teacher could get as many people to dress alike. -- Jello Biafra
I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before I was in the music business. I liked history, and good teachers made an impact on me. -- Billy Joel
Even before I became a recording artist, I did other things in music. I was a teacher, I did studio work, and I was an arranger and a producer. -- Jon Secada
We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of language this nation gets a little stronger. -- Richard Riley

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