East Quote by Pat Boone

I grew up listening to English music.

— Ryan Tedder

I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.

— Randy Travis

I never learned music. I'm quite uneducated, and usually I sat in front of the TV, with soap operas on, in England. It was…

— Graham Parker

I grew up in an international school community my whole life, and my national identity is very confused, so I grew up listening to…

— Sophie Hawley-Weld

I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before I was in the music business. I liked history, and good teachers made…

— Billy Joel

As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so it wasn't…

— Carrie Brownstein

I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available.

— Jeanine Tesori

I grew up speaking English and Spanish. I grew up moving from country to country due to political, governmental, and social issues and just…

— Cristian Machado

I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.

— Bjork

I would have been happy teaching music in schools - I still would be, and I still might be, although I don't know if…

— Lewis Capaldi

I trained classically for 11 years and then studied musical theater at AMDA New York. My dad is a singer-songwriter, so I followed in…

— Madeline Brewer

I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.

— Mark Takano