Band Teachers Quotes & Sayings

Personally, I find visualisations great for helping me understand the world and for sifting the huge amounts of information that deluge me every day. — David McCandless

I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it's a total waste if she follows her dream'. But I never wanted to do a job I didn't love, and I'd always wanted to be a model or an actress or a singer. — Abbey Clancy

My musical background in Tyler, Texas was quite outstanding. Uh, I grew up with, uh, with high school teachers who were in bands, they could play music. And we had a nine piece band there in Tyler, and I joined them when I was about, oh, 15 years old and traveled all over Texas in that band, playing for the elite oil people. Hah. And um, I was making about 50 bucks a night, and uh, it taught me, they taught me how to find my timing and to learn the songs that I wanted. — Carl Gardner

Badly drawn, badly written and badly printed - a strain on young eyes and young nervous systems - the effect of these pulp-paper nightmares is that of a violent stimulant. Their crude blacks and reds spoil the child's natural sense of color; their hypodermic injection of sex and murder makes the child impatient with better, though quieter, stories. Unless we want a coming generation even more ferocious than the present one, parents and teachers throughout America must band together to break the 'comic' magazines.

But the antidote to the 'comic' magazine poison can be found in any library or good bookstore. The parent who does not acquire that antidote for his child is guilty of criminal negligence. — Sterling North

I mean, in terms of comfort, it was horrible, but we knew the sequence was going to be good. That sort of drives you forward when you know what you're working on is going to be fun. You'll go through all manner of discomfort to get the shot. — Michael Chiklis

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking. — Khalil Gibran

Right is not always right. If you are appropriate, then you are always right. — Debasish Mridha

Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive. — Ira Glass

Sometimes, methinks, a lass just needs to have a proper enraged scream. — Christopher Moore

You obviously want to start the season out with a big game and to follow it up by continuing to get better. — Clay Matthews III

When boys called Bob and Bono would bring their own wild-rhythm celebration and the world would fall down in worshipful hallelujahs as it again acknowledged Ireland's capacity to create missionaries. So what if they were "the boys in the band"? They sang from a pulpit, an enormous pulpit looking down on a congregation that would knock your eyes out. A city that had produced Joyce and Beckett and Yeats, a country that had produced poet-heroes and more priests and nuns per head of population than almost any on earth was not going to spawn boys who just wanted to stand before a packed hall of gyrating teenagers and strum their guitars and sing. They had to have a message. One of salvation; they were in it to save the world. Like I said, we're teachers, missionaries. — Josephine Hart

There are times when relationships need to be prioritised over what is right. And there are times when the right needs to be prioritised over relationships. — Amit Ahlawat