I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.

They [the teachers at European conservatories] taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because…

— Miroslav Vitous

In fact although I have studied in a Conservatory the classical piano, I do not consider myself a classical pianist.

— Richard Clayderman

I thought I was going to be in musical theater all the way, from beginning to end, and then it started not to feel…

— Briga Heelan

When I came out of the conservatory, the first thing I did was to go see Thelonious Monk.

— Cecil Taylor

My love of classical hit pretty early. I was 13 when it occurred, and that was really the only music I listened to for…

— Rufus Wainwright

I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are really awful…

— Regina Spektor

I did a lot of commercial and theater work when I got out of school and was living in Dallas, and I moved to…

— Allison Tolman

When I composed, I heard my music played by the orchestra within days of completion of the score. No master at a conservatory, no…

— Andre Previn

I went to the University of California, Santa Cruz for a year, which turned out to be a really vibrant, very intensive intellectual atmosphere…

— Tod Machover

Thus having been undeservedly accepted at the Conservatory as a professor, I soon became one of its best and possibly its very best pupil,…

— Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

My favourite piece of architecture is the Royal Conservatory of Music on Bloor (273 Bloor Street West). When they cleaned up the old building…

— Andy Barrie

When I went into the conservatory at 17, then I was able to open up and accept everything about myself and show my feminine…

— Robert Lepage

“I had come to love the space, and I could see why Lady Anna had too. The orchids were positively glorious. She'd tagged each…

— Sarah Jio

Being an actress wasn't realistic. I knew that I was going to have to do it in a way that would speak to my…

— Gina Rodriguez

I studied classical music in the Conservatory of Paris.

— Jean-Michel Jarre