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“In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.”

School America Music Needed Noble Melody

Author:Antonin Dvorak

“School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians”

Art School Music Produce Educated Barbarians

Author:Edward Albee

“I'm able to laugh now, because I've gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy to heal over the years, my music's been wonderful for me. But I was a shell of my former self at one point. I was not myself. To be fair, I was about 19, so ... I went to Catholic school and all this crazy stuff happened, and I was going, 'Oh, is this just the way adults are?' I was very naive.”

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Author:Lady Gaga

“In spite of what Draco is like, I really like school, and I miss it a lot when I'm filming. I've a fair idea what I want to do for my GCSEs, I will definitely be doing music.”

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Author:Tom Felton

“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”

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Author:B. B. King

“I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.”

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Author:John McLaughlin

“Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.”

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Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.”

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Author:Lady Gaga

“As far as music school goes, I walked through Berkelee one time.”

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Author:Buddy Rich

“I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.”

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Author:Cassandra Wilson

“Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.”

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Author:Clark Terry

“From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.”

Ifs Needs Kind School Music Needed Safe Explanation Middlemen

Author:Eric Clapton

“The music has to come from bluegrass first. We always said back in the 70s that if you want to play newgrass you have to go through the school of bluegrass. You know, maybe Jack Black can make a movie now called School of Bluegrass . That would be cool.”

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Author:Sam Bush

“When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.”

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Author:T Bone Burnett

“Football is the priority, even more than school. Art is frowned upon. I had to sneak music in.”

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Author:Kevin McCall