When Claude Debussy studied at the Paris Conservatory from age ten to age twenty-two, many considered him a rebel because of his… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
My favourite piece of architecture is the Royal Conservatory of Music on Bloor (273 Bloor Street West). When they cleaned up the… — Andy Barrie Copy Share Image
The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of… — Flea Copy Share Image
Inspired teachers ... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and brought home… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
My life has had a lot of fits and starts: before I studied literature at all I was a musician, and began… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
They [the teachers at European conservatories] taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was… — Miroslav Vitous Copy Share Image
I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school. — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
Now, as for this new breed of musicians with their 'ultrasonic' conservatory technique, I say: So What. Tell me a story from… — Woody Shaw Copy Share Image
There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to… — Ryan Sypek Copy Share Image
I trained at a conservatory as a mezzo-soprano and was a musical theater major in college so I had a theater background. — Scarlett Bordeaux Copy Share Image
I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
I went to the Conservatory, studying piano and singing, up to high school - but I only did four years because I… — Elena Roger Copy Share Image
After a couple years of occasional lessons with Pass I moved to Boston to attend the New England Conservatory. — Mark White Copy Share Image
Conservatory training is so much. There's so much emphasis on playing perfectly in tune and being perfect and doing everything as it's… — Lucia Micarelli Copy Share Image
The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house. Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The operas that I do are more in the operetta world, but I've gotten to do them in all of these major… — Jason Graae Copy Share Image
Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and wanted to… — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
“Dazed, she glanced around; the dark shapes of huge leaves reared above the denser dark of heavy pots, grouped upon a tiled… — Stephanie Laurens Copy Share Image
Genetically, I have tons of musical background in my life. My mother's father was a famous Weimar-era composer, Ernst Toch. My father's… — Lawrence Weschler Copy Share Image
I was born and grew up in Phoenix, and I left there when I was 17 to go to Interlochen Arts Academy… — Kimiko Glenn Copy Share Image
“I looked up at the moon and stars through the glass roof above and gasped at the stunning sight, like a mural… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
“I took a cautious step inside, marveling at the sight before me. A vast conservatory awaited, or what 'once' was a conservatory.… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
“I was too awestruck to speak. Vines of bright pink flowers danced over a wrought-iron arbor. I recognized them immediately as the… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
I loved Queen, Journey, Fleetwood Mac, and people like Barbara Streisand. The thing with me is that classical music was also an… — Lara Fabian Copy Share Image
I've never taken a lesson in my life, and I can play every instrument there is. I play by ear, but I… — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
Once in a while, a teacher gets rewarded with a brilliant student. My two years with Dan Szabo at the New England… — Bob Brookmeyer Copy Share Image
Because I was from the Midwest and untrained, I was completely open and ready to try anything. Many of my classmates were… — Laila Robins Copy Share Image
Literally, walking down that path. I was walking to work and I passed by A.C.T. (American Conservatory Theater) in San Francisco, and… — Tim Kang Copy Share Image
I was 16 when I got a scholarship to study classical composition at a conservatory. By that time I had already listened… — Jack Bruce Copy Share Image
Africa may yet prove to be the spiritual conservatory of the world ...When the civilised nations in consequence of their wonderful material… — Edward Wilmot Blyden Copy Share Image
I was trained at a conservatory school, and they usher you into the business by giving you a showcase. I was so… — Abby Brammell Copy Share Image
My dad studied at the American Conservatory in Chicago, so he lived on all those streets. He said the war probably saved… — Kim Basinger Copy Share Image
I started in high school with a teacher there. I also took lessons at the Conservatory of Music in Detroit. Detroit was… — Yusef Lateef Copy Share Image
In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on formalism. There was a bulletin… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
I went to drama school for four years at Carnegie Mellon, conservatory training before television comedy. I was doing Shakespeare and Chekov… — Josh Gad Copy Share Image
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