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"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."

Education, Music, Time, Being

"It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense."

Wedding, Pretty

"And for me, it's been, not only where I learned, but the people that I met there. Most of the people that I work with are guys that, one way or another, have been associated with the university."

Work, People, University

"And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background."

Education, Music, Career

"I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages."

Community, Singing

"I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz."

Jazz,

"I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American."

American,

"I started in high school to be interested in music and from there, I decided to study in college. Yeah, you're right, I did start late, but luckily, because of my schooling, I picked up a lot of ground pretty quick."

Music, College, Pretty, Quick

"A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set."

Music, Singing

"If there was any other place I would live, other than Miami, it would be California. It's beautiful. The weather is just gorgeous, I love being here, too."

Love, Being, Weather

Exlpore more Education quotes

"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read."

Mark Twain, American Author

Education, Read

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Education, Tears, Writer

"Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about."

Octavia Butler, American Writer

Education, Science, Fantasy, First, Open

"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Education, Reading, Writing

"Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere."

Octavia Butler, American Writer

Education, Science, Fiction

"For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time."

Louis L'Amour, American Author

Education, History, Time, Biography, Fiction

"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

Education, Business

"I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate."

Jack London, American Novelist

Education, Beauty, Purpose, Now, Reason

"O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Education, Day

"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet

Education, Life, Existence, Harmony