“I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.” YearsTwoHardHappensSchoolMotherNextFatherBrotherLessonsMetsMarriedHigh SchoolDiedGirlfriendMy BrotherTwo YearsLife LessonPregnantNext YearMy GirlfriendSophomoreMother DiedHard LessonsSophomore Year Book:I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is Source: I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is
“When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again.” BigsSchoolFunFeltLessonsHigh SchoolConcertsTime OffHarpsEvanescence Author:Amy Lee
“I remember one English teacher in the eighth grade, Florence Schrack, whose husband also taught at the high school. I thought what she said made sense, and she parsed sentences on the blackboard and gave me, I'd like to think, some sense of English grammar and that there is a grammar, that those commas serve a purpose and that a sentence has a logic, that you can break it down. I've tried not to forget those lessons, and to treat the English language with respect as a kind of intricate tool.” ThinkingKindMadeSaidSchoolRememberPurposeLanguageForgetBreakTeacherTaughtLessonsHusbandHigh SchoolToolsLogicTreatsSentencesGradesGrammarEnglish LanguageIntricateFlorenceEnglish TeacherEighth GradeBlackboardEnglish Grammar Author:John Updike
“Kids below 10 or 12, I think they just need to learn by playing at golf. Later on, in high school, when they develop muscles and everything, that's when they need to see about getting lessons.” ThinkingNeedsKidsSchoolLessonsHigh SchoolGolfMuscles Author:Bubba Watson
“If i wouldn't have done comedy, I would have been a teacher. I was really good when I took an exploratory teaching class in high school, at getting kids' attention, and delivering lesson plans. Though my principal even told me that this was what I was meant to do. And that being a big-mouth comedian was a waste of time.” IfsHas BeensDoneBigsKidsSchoolAttentionClassComedyTeacherPlansTeachingLessonsWasteMouthsHigh SchoolComedianWasting TimePrincipalDelivering Author:Gabriel Iglesias
“I took piano and drum lessons when I was young, and took a lot of choir classes in high school. Beyond that I just play by ear and learn as I go.” PlaySchoolYoungClassLessonsHigh SchoolEarsPianoChoir Author:Jason Reeves
“I was teaching drum lessons at a few high schools - everything from marching to classical to rock and jazz. I found that really rewarding, having to explain my thought process, having to think about stuff that I take for granted or as second nature.” ThinkingSchoolFoundStuffProcessTeachingRocksLessonsHigh SchoolJazzGrantedMy ThoughtsThought Process Author:Glenn Kotche
“I started piano lessons at age six but didn't take music seriously until I was a teenager, when I thought about a career in music. I studied classical music, and my instruments were guitar and piano. I played keyboards in bands, and after high school I went to Vienna to study at the Academy of Music. I also became a session player, which culminated in my work with Tangerine Dream.” DreamAgeSchoolCareersStudyPlayerLessonsBandSixHigh SchoolInstrumentsGuitarTeenagerPianoSessionClassical MusicAcademyKeyboardsViennaPiano LessonAfter High SchoolLife After High SchoolTangerines Author:Paul Haslinger
“I started in high school with a teacher there. I also took lessons at the Conservatory of Music in Detroit. Detroit was very motivating. There were a lot of local people who inspired me like Kenny Burrell, Paul Chambers, Roy Brooks, Donald Byrd, etc.” PeopleSchoolTeacherLessonsHigh SchoolInspiredLocalsEtcChamberDetroitBrooksKennyConservatory Author:Yusef Lateef
“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 any of that was particularly interesting.” ThinkingSchoolInterestingPiecesLessonsHigh SchoolPianoCompositionChamberChamber Music Author:Tod Machover
“By the time I was eight I was taking classical piano lessons and I wanted to be a concert pianist. But that didn't work out. I graduated from high school and my formal education ended.” WantedSchoolLessonsHigh SchoolWork OutEightPianoConcertsFormalPianistFormal EducationPiano Lesson Author:Nina Simone
“In my teens I fancied myself an artist; I hung out with the eccentric art teacher at my high school, painted still lifes and portraits and landscapes in watercolor and acrylics, took private lessons, won some blue ribbons for my earnest renderings. My lack of talent did little to dampen my enthusiasm. In college I thought I'd continue, but, like Salieri, I quickly realized that while I had the ability to appreciate art, I wasn't actually very good.” LittlesArtStillsSchoolArtistAbilityTeacherTalentCollegeLessonsHigh SchoolAppreciateBlueVery GoodEnthusiasmLandscapeTeensHungPortraitsEarnestEccentricRibbonsRenderingStill LifeArt TeacherWatercolorsSalieri Author:Christina Baker Kline
“By the latter part of high school, by the middle of junior year in high school, Jay Rodriguez played me some Irakere records that that Paquito [D'Rivera] was on. And he also played me and our friend, Curtis Haywood, some Phil Woods records. And when I heard Phil, I just about lost my mind. I was playing the Charlie Parker Omnibook as part of my lessons. This was the '80s. There was no YouTube and all that. And we had three or four jazz records at that point.” YearsMindSchoolThreeLostRecordsFourHeardMiddleLessonsHigh SchoolJazzWoodsLatter80sJuniorsYoutubeCharlieJunior YearLost My MindJazz Records Author:Jon Gordon
“I also met Charles McPherson around that time, end of high school. I was 17 and I had followed Phil around for a year and pestered him enough to finally give me saxophone lessons. So all of a sudden I've got Phil Woods and Charles McPherson around me.” GivingYearsEndsEnoughSchoolLessonsMetsHigh SchoolGive MeWoodsSaxophoneHigh School Ending Author:Jon Gordon
“The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to come, in time, to an understanding of the best writing of the present. He will teach literature, not social studies or little lessons in democracy or the customs of many lands. And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed.” IfsShouldWritingWellsLittlesSchoolPastLiteratureOpportunitySocialUnderstandingResponsibilityTeachDemocracyStudyTeacherLandStudentsLessonsTasteHigh SchoolCustomsFulfillingSocial StudiesEnglish TeacherSchool English Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“High school taught me a valuable lesson about glasses: Don't wear them. Contacts have always seemed like too much work, so instead I just squint, figuring that if something is more than ten feet away, I'll just deal with it when I get there.” IfsSchoolDealsToo MuchFeetTaughtLessonsTenHigh SchoolGlassesValuableContactValuable LessonsToo Much Work Author:David Sedaris