Conservatory Quotes

• I was trained at a conservatory school, and they usher you into the business by giving you a showcase. I was so lucky that I met with an agent, and he sent me on an audition for a TV pilot, and I happened to book it. It was like complete luck that it happened.

  Abby Brammell

  Book, School, Giving

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• Every body we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Men, Garden

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.145, Graphic Arts Books

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• Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Learning, School, Knowledge

  Ludwig von Mises (1985). “Theory and History”, p.263, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Inspired teachers ... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and brought home from the woods and swamps like orchids. They must be placed in a conservatory, not in a carpenter shop; and they must be honored and trusted.

  John Jay Chapman

  Teacher, Teaching, Home

  John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Criticism & memoirs”

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• It's Major Ketchup in the bathroom with the laser scalpel." "Hmm." He sliced a delicately herbed spear of asparagus. "Obviously we were meant for each other as I can interpret that as you meaning something more like Colonel Mustard in the conservatory with the candlestick.

  Nora Roberts

  Meaning Something, Asparagus, Lasers

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• I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Important, Acting, Different

  "Sean Durkin and Elizabeth Olsen". Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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• I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  School, Rome, Music In Schools

  "Diva Cecilia Bartoli". Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. November 9, 1998.

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• Africa may yet prove to be the spiritual conservatory of the world ... When the civilised nations in consequence of their wonderful material development, shall have had their spiritual susceptibilities blunted through the agency of a captivating and absorbing materialism, it may be that they have to resort to Africa to recover some of the simple elements of faith.

  Edward Wilmot Blyden

  Spiritual, Simple, Agency

  "Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race".

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• Once in a while, a teacher gets rewarded with a brilliant student. My two years with Dan Szabo at the New England Conservatory were indeed a gift -- he is a pianist with unlimited potential and a composer that makes my heart sing. I deeply feel that he is an important musician for the coming years.

  Bob Brookmeyer

  Teacher, Heart, Unlimited Potential

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• I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City.

  Placido Domingo

  Years, Cities, Two

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• There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a workshop in Boston at the New England Conservatory, which was really nice.

  Charlie Haden

  Nice, Boston, People

  "Charlie Haden Remembers Tomorrow". Interview With Mike Brannon, www.allaboutjazz.com. March 7, 2003.

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• Literally, walking down that path. I was walking to work and I passed by A.C.T. (American Conservatory Theater) in San Francisco, and they had night education classes for adults. I said, "Yeah, why not?," and walked in, just for the fun of it, to see what it was like.

  Tim Kang

  Fun, Night, Class

  Source: collider.com

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• I loved Queen, Journey, Fleetwood Mac, and people like Barbara Streisand. The thing with me is that classical music was also an inspiration. I took piano lessons at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels for 10 years.

  Lara Fabian

  Queens, Inspiration, Journey

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• 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.

  Yusef Lateef

  Teacher, School, People

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• My dad studied at the American Conservatory in Chicago, so he lived on all those streets. He said the war probably saved his life because he'd have ended up a dead musician, with all the crazy stuff they did on Rush Street back in the day.

  Kim Basinger

  Dad, Crazy, War

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• My favourite piece of architecture is the Royal Conservatory of Music on Bloor (273 Bloor Street West). When they cleaned up the old building a few years back, the stonework just knocked me out. It is a great melding of the Old Toronto and the new.

  Andy Barrie

  Years, Old Buildings, Pieces

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• Because I had been in conservatory for so long, I was jealous of my friends in bands.

  Nico Muhly

  Jealous, Long, Band

  Interview with Sean Michaels, believermag.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.

  Rachael MacFarlane

  Boston, Musical, Theatre

  "Comic-Con: AMERICAN DAD’s Rachael MacFarlane Talks Up the New Season; Reveals Her Musical Aspirations". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. July 16, 2012.

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• Thus having been undeservedly accepted at the Conservatory as a professor, I soon became one of its best and possibly its very best pupil, judging by the quantity and value of the information it gave me!

  Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

  Judging, Information, Accepted

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• I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are really awful songs, but I guess they saw something in them.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• My life has had a lot of fits and starts: before I studied literature at all I was a musician, and began undergrad as a conservatory student. I started studying literature in my third year of college, when I took a poetry course with James Longenbach that was pretty extraordinary. It changed my life.

  Garth Greenwell

  College, Years, Musician

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In fact although I have studied in a Conservatory the classical piano, I do not consider myself a classical pianist.

  Richard Clayderman

  Piano, Facts, Pianist

  Source: performancereviewed.com

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• My love of classical hit pretty early. I was 13 when it occurred, and that was really the only music I listened to for many, many years. I went to a conservatory, but I always knew I would be in the pop world, because A) it was more fun and B) you didn't have to practice as much and you could go out more. But I immediately saw this opportunity to inject my material with these sounds that most members of my generation really didn't know about, so it was a great way to differentiate myself from the pack.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Fun, Opportunity, Practice

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I went to the University of California, Santa Cruz for a year, which turned out to be a really vibrant, very intensive intellectual atmosphere where you could do a lot of aspect of music without it being a conservatory. And that's why I went there.

  Tod Machover

  Years, California, Atmosphere

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I have a sister who is a dancer and dance teacher. We grew up dancing together. I wanted to become a ballerina when I was a kid, so she and I were always at ballet conservatories and going to school with our hair in buns.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Teacher, Kids, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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