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My parents were both high-school music teachers. -- Renee Fleming
Both of my parents are actually music teachers. -- Charlie Day
High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it. -- David Ogden Stiers
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
If every school would hire two more music teachers, we would need two fewer police officers. -- Kurt Masur
Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I was hearing the fundamentals of playing the piano, what notes are, and all those things very early on. -- Jillian Hervey
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
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
I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher. -- Connie Britton
I started out as a music teacher; I never planned on becoming an actress. -- Li Bingbing
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
I learned from my teachers but became through my music -- Macklemore
Music teachers can either inspire or make you resent your instrument and parents in early years. -- Jill Sobule
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

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