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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. -- Flea
If it hadn't worked out professionally, I would be teaching music theory and composition in a small college somewhere and playing drums in a jazz trio at the Holiday Inn on weekends, and I'd be happy there, too. -- J. D. Souther
I studied trumpet for almost 15 years and was performing with a professional concert marching band in parades and rodeos. I was headed back east to study music, and if I hadn't been intrigued with the Native American flute, I suppose I'd now be jockeying for first chair of the brass section of some orchestra, or perhaps I'd be teaching music in a school system. -- R. Carlos Nakai
My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do. -- George Steiner
I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on. -- Richard Rodney Bennett
Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville. -- James Weldon Johnson
I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to. -- Moby
So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage. -- Margaret Whiting
The only job I'd ever had that might be considered not playing music was teaching guitar, which I did in college for a while, but that still falls in the same category. -- John Oates
The main thing in making your own music is that it's an expression of someone's personality and being. That's what people want to hear, and you can't really teach that - that's just something that comes out. Teaching just hones that. -- Michael Kiwanuka
So, immediately after that, I got a commission to write a piece for chamber orchestra, and in working on the material I discovered it was possible to incorporate the Buddhist teachings into the music, so that's what I started to do. -- Joseph Jarman
In high school, I decided I wanted to learn guitar, so I picked it up and starting teaching myself some basic chords and started playing with friends. Guitar inherently lends itself to be guitar music, especially when you're not good at guitar. -- Autre Ne Veut
I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs. -- Jake Owen
Teaching is a very effective way to get children to learn something specific - this tube squeaks, say, or a squish then a press then a pull causes the music to play. But it also makes children less likely to discover unexpected information and to draw unexpected conclusions. -- Alison Gopnik
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
I feel that for years of teaching in the country and reading criticism in books, I feel like the things most needed in our culture are the understanding of the meanings of our music. We haven't done that good of job teaching our kids what our music means or how we developed our taste in music that reminds us and teaches us who we are. -- Wynton Marsalis
Much music teaching seems more concerned with controlling the student than with encouraging the student's own impulses. -- William Westney
Teaching music to children is the most important thing in life, next to parenting, that a person can do. -- Jean Ashworth Bartle
My challenges have not been around music. My hardest thing in music was just sitting down and teaching myself how to play and believing in myself. -- Valerie June
I'm merely teaching you to be someone of pride and to be a good leader and that's the message I want you to take away from my music. -- Sizzla
Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy. -- Alvin Ailey

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