"Music is a basic need of human survival. Music is one of the ways we make sense of our lives, one of the ways in which we express feelings when we have no words, a way for us to understand things with our hearts when we can't with our minds." - Dr. Karl Paulnack
Please join in the celebration of music education by keeping it alive in schools all across the world. Here are four musicians with four different stories about how music education has touched their lives.
I could have been a doctor. I spent as much time in school as most doctors do. Or I could have been a professional athlete. I spend as many hours per day honing my skills as most athletes do. But instead I am a musician. I work absurd hours for little pay and even less appreciation. So to the people who helped me get here, "Thanks a lot!"
I know what you may be thinking. Sure, the skills I have acquired from my music teachers have allowed me to have a job in which I travel to wonderful places all around the world and meet incredibly interesting people. But flight attendants do the same thing. Ok... And on many occasions I am paid for doing something I absolutely love to do.
So while there are good things to be said about the life of a musician, those things could be as good or better had I become a doctor, athlete, or flight attendant. But somewhere along the way a music teacher or two convinced me that music was the life for me. And for some strange reason, I am very glad they did.
So to all of the music teachers out there:
Thanks. A lot.
I know what you may be thinking. Sure, the skills I have acquired from my music teachers have allowed me to have a job in which I travel to wonderful places all around the world and meet incredibly interesting people. But flight attendants do the same thing. Ok... And on many occasions I am paid for doing something I absolutely love to do.
So while there are good things to be said about the life of a musician, those things could be as good or better had I become a doctor, athlete, or flight attendant. But somewhere along the way a music teacher or two convinced me that music was the life for me. And for some strange reason, I am very glad they did.
So to all of the music teachers out there:
Thanks. A lot.
I could have been a doctor. I spent as much time in school as most doctors do. Or I could have been a professional athlete. I spend as many hours per day honing my skills as most athletes do. But instead I am a musician. I work absurd hours for little pay and even less appreciation. So to the people who helped me get here, "Thanks a lot!"
I know what you may be thinking. Sure, the skills I have acquired from my music teachers have allowed me to have a job in which I travel to wonderful places all around the world and meet incredibly interesting people. But flight attendants do the same thing. Ok... And on many occasions I am paid for doing something I absolutely love to do.
So while there are good things to be said about the life of a musician, those things could be as good or better had I become a doctor, athlete, or flight attendant. But somewhere along the way a music teacher or two convinced me that music was the life for me. And for some strange reason, I am very glad they did.
So to all of the music teachers out there:
Thanks. A lot.
I know what you may be thinking. Sure, the skills I have acquired from my music teachers have allowed me to have a job in which I travel to wonderful places all around the world and meet incredibly interesting people. But flight attendants do the same thing. Ok... And on many occasions I am paid for doing something I absolutely love to do.
So while there are good things to be said about the life of a musician, those things could be as good or better had I become a doctor, athlete, or flight attendant. But somewhere along the way a music teacher or two convinced me that music was the life for me. And for some strange reason, I am very glad they did.
So to all of the music teachers out there:
Thanks. A lot.