Top 1200 Music Teacher Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

About 13-14 years ago, I went back to my alma mater, Fairfax High School, and ran into the music teacher. She invited me to come speak to the kids about the viability of a music career. When I went into the room where I used to play every day in a big orchestra, they had nothing!

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.

My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.

Within the yogic philosophy, the edge is considered to be my creative teacher from whom I can learn about myself. If I approach this teacher/edge with love, sensitivity and awareness, I will discover that my teacher/edge will move and allow me a greater range of motion.

It is the teacher - what the teacher knows and can do - that is the most significant factor in student achievement.

"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no spiritual teacher left.

My music teacher told me that she didn't even know why I was going to college - I should be a stand-up.

Mama is the greatest teacher, teacher of love, fearlessness and compassion.

If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.

My mum was a music teacher. I've got three sisters, and we all played instruments when we were kids.

The director's job is like a teacher's, and I feel a teacher should not have any doubts about the subject.

No matter how good a teacher is, if that teacher won't play as part of the team, you're better off without her.

Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically Im a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.

Art is created to make us, to make our passage through the world better, fruitful - and I would say that every story in the end, if it is good, tells us something. This is actually what I meant when I said a novelist is a teacher. Which is why I am constantly dealing with "didactic". Now a teacher in the sense I use it is not somebody who has the profession of standing in front of children, with a piece of chalk in his hand scribbling on the blackboard. That is not the teacher I have in mind. The teacher I have in mind is something less tangible.

Our real teacher has been and still is the embryo, who is, incidentally, the only teacher who is always right.

A good teacher explains, while a great teacher inspires

When you sit with an enlightened teacher physically, the teacher moves in and out of different states of mind. That is how you learn to do it yourself.

The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.

My dad was a teacher. He has a Masters in music. He taught elementary school, and he played gigs his whole life, and we lived good.

When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music.

Teacher is not a great popular person. They teach what they know and make people better than them. Teacher must create a student better than him or her. Otherwise that person is not a teacher but a preacher. There are tons and thousands of preachers.

Another classical music teacher from Performing Arts that I've stayed in contact with is Jonathan Strasser.

Do not believe in me or any other teacher, rather trust in your own inner voice. This is your guide, this is your teacher. Your teacher is within not without. Know yourself, not me!

I always wanted to be a teacher. A bit of me still wants to be a teacher.

Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.

My music teacher was like, "Ester, you need to pay attention in class." I'm like, "No miss lady, 'cause I can sing." I didn't want anybody to change the way I sung. I learned by gospel CDs and by watching my momma sing; I didn't need this teacher to tell me. I wish I had, because then I would have learned how to play the damn piano or something. I would have a couple of more things under my belt if I wasn't so hard-headed.

In the yoga of love, one has a teacher. It is the teacher whom one loves.

A student who considers everybody and everything as a teacher will eventually be the teacher of the teachers!

You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.

Nobody is born as a teacher and only a few die as a teacher!

Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.

I call myself a meditation teacher rather than a spiritual teacher.

As a kid, I had this ultimate goal to be a teacher. I wanted to be a history teacher like my dad.

Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn't brought up in a home where we listened to classical music. It was a singing teacher that thought it would be best for my voice. Then I moved into crossover. And if that makes the music accessible to more people, then great.

My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as possible the great original at the head of the table. I think that's a mistake, in obvious opposition to the ideal of teaching which permits a student to be someone other than the teacher. ... The successful teacher has to make each of the students a different product rather than the same.

Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God - the Teacher of the teacher.

I like to remind teachers that even though they're all overwhelmed and overloaded, and it's easy to get burned out, it really is about the kids. It only takes one good teacher to change a life - one time, and one book. That's what happened when I was a kid. I had one good teacher that came in at the right time and turned me into a writer. So never lose sight - you could be that teacher.

In high school, I once sang 'Let's Get It On' and 'Brown Sugar' with a band that included my English teacher and my math teacher.

I've always been a music fan. I played trumpet. When I was in 4th grade, we were getting demos from the music teacher about different instruments we could play, and I said I wanted to play the trumpet right away. It was easy: it just had three valves.

Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the ideal way of teaching it to you. You don't create a Master Teacher -- that's already been done. You discover your Master Teacher.

As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

Teacher, teacher, I declare, I see your purple underwear.

This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.

Musicians are like a preacher, a teacher, an actor. You are the mediator who can transfer the energy of beautiful music to the others.

I'm a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children.

Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher

A good teacher is someone who can help you to get back to a teacher within.

We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.

The true teacher is within us. A good teacher is someone who can help you to go back and touch the true teacher within, because you already have the insight within you.

I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.

My most memorable teacher was Rich Campe, my third-grade teacher at Fairlands Elementary in Pleasanton, California.

I feel like every teacher out there has a teacher that impacted them in their life.

If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our otherwise weak efforts... remember, you cannot give away that which you do not possess. Study the life of the master. You do not have to have a college degree to be an efficient teacher. But you do have to become acquainted with the life and teachings of the master to be an effective teacher in the church.