Music Instruction Quotes

#1. Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the beginning of their lives.

Leonard Bernstein

#2. In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction

A.J.P. Taylor

#3. Mostly, whenever I'm booked to do instruction, I just play a little bit and get people to ask questions. We'll play some music for 'em, 'til somebody hollers out, 'Play 'Milk Cow Blues' or 'Play 'San Antonio Rose.' We play requests and demonstrate our music.

Johnny Gimble

#4. By the age of eleven it was . . . too late for the piano and the violin.

Jasper Rees

#5. One day after class, she dropped her purse outside Bahnhof Oerlikon

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#6. Because every story is a ghost story, even mine.

Samantha Hunt

#7. Most people would fiercely resist the idea that they need any instruction in how to listen to music. Because we can hear, we think we can listen. But just because we can see, we don't assume we can read. Reading

Julian Johnson

#8. The majority of Americans get their news and information about what is going on with their government from entities that are licensed by and subject to punishment at the hands of that very government.

Neal Boortz

#9. It's like geographical humor. You just don't get it unless you were there.

Melina Marchetta

#10. Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.

Thomas Hobbes

#11. There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.

Eudora Welty

#12. It's wonderful to move forward technologically, but we cannot forget that we are human beings who thrive on relationships, who thrive on interconnectivity, who thrive on sharing your feelings and emotions.

Goldie Hawn

#13. I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.

Flea

#14. 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

#15. Don't leave music in the lone territory of the music teacher; make it a part of your instruction. In the words of Bob Marley, "Music gonna teach dem a lesson.

Sheryl G. Feinstein

#16. Children do not need half a dozen sports, music, art, or theater activities. Kids actually need more free playtime without adult instruction.

Laura Schlessinger

#17. The horn . . . is the joint hardest instrument to learn. . . . (The other is the oboe).

Jasper Rees