Classroom Quote by Pauline Oliveros

[Students] they did the sonic meditations, I would observe them in their ensembles, and the ensembles improved incredibly. So I knew I had something…

— Pauline Oliveros

It was around the end of the '60s, when I began to compose sonic meditations. Before that I was doing a lot of reflecting…

— Pauline Oliveros

I did take composition lessons when I was in high school, so I wrote piano pieces. I wrote some chamber music. I don't think…

— Tod Machover

I always composed music as a little kid.

— Reggie Watts

I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.

— Beyonce Knowles

When I think about how I want to reach an audience, I just wanted to make pieces that were inspired by something that gave…

— Shepard Fairey

Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in…

— Mose Allison

Earlier in my life, I performed a lot of music. Some of it because I felt it was a demonstration, or a representation of…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

I would play a long tone on my accordion, or I'd sing one, and I would note how it felt - what it did…

— Pauline Oliveros

I took classical music very seriously as a kid.

— Laufey

I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - and then…

— Eliza Coupe

As a really young child, I was listening to the echoes of the age before, music hall and stuff like that, as well as…

— Roy Harper