Music Education Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old music education quotes, music education sayings, and music education proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

A theory of music learning involves sensation, perception, and cognition, processes that produce an ongoing change in mental structure as individuals continually add and modify musical knowledge. Davidson and Scripp
In music education, the 'official music' has been, as was mentioned earlier, the music of the elite, so-called classical music. Bernstein
Any thorough study of music must necessarily include a study of those people who practice and perpetuate the art and the social role that they play. Howard White
A study of music, of and by itself, isolated from the culture in which it resides, elicits a myopic interpretation that fails to account for being a social art of interaction where all its elements interact with all other cultural elements. Howard White
Music education is envisioned as a convergence of all subdisciplines of music and of psychological, pedagogical, and instructional matters. It includes the study of composition, improvisation, music listening, cultural context, and relationship to the art. Bowman
To broaden boundaries of music education, music teachers and students are encouraged to engage in composing, in different kinds of performance, and in various types of listening . Yukiko Tsubonou
We in music education are nurturers of consciousness. Bennett Reimer
Music education in and of itself as a professional entity can be conceived as aesthetic education, as can each art in and of itself. Bennett Reimer
Many music educators, when first encountering the ideas connected to aesthetic education, seemed to have thought so, and came to regard aesthetic education as a means for demonstrating, in a more solid, more defensible, more thoughtful way than previously, that music education was a necessary subject in schools. Bennett Reimer
The internationalization of music education offers many opportunities for powerful advocacy, uniting various music education traditions and using the most successful national concepts for the international music education community. Bildung
During the seventeenth century, music secured its place in what was perceived to be a rounded education for the children of upper-class families, and many employed private music teachers. Gordon Munro
Music is a product of specific cultural ways of thinking and doing, and its inclusion in education can, I argue, only be justified in terms of the importance a particular culture places on its music as a valued art form. Robert Walker
Music develops analytical thinking because it requires students to be creative. They don't ust regurgitate memorized facts. They have to apply those facts. Dr. Kevin Strother
Music and the arts make a bridge across this world in ways that nothing else can. Julie Andrews
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them. Luciano Pavarotti
Teaching music is not my main purpose. I want to make good citizens. If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart. Shinichi Suzuki
The world is in great need of more music education. When students play music, it allows a part of their artistic mind to express itself, which is very important in helping to balance a child intellectually, spiritually, and emotionally. Paul Reed Smith
Music is about communication, creativity, and cooperation, and by studying music in schools, students have the opportunity to build on these skills, enrich their lives, and experience the world from a new perspective. William J. Clinton
Music can change the world because it can change people. Bono
In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student... I was always complaining that music education was too academic. Bjork
When I was 4 years old my mother put me into an early music education school. That's where they taught you perfect pitch and harmony and how to write music and all that. At that time, one of the homeworks was to listen to all the sounds and the noise of a day and transfer that into musical notes. Yoko Ono
Education is not entertainment, and music for partying is not music for studying: the two are mutually exclusive. Beethoven is for studying: Britney Spears is for partying. Robert Walker
There is music in every child. The teacher's job is to find it and nurture it. Frances Clark
I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more. Jon Secada