"My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher’s family." ― Simon van der Meer Topic(s): Teacher More In Teacher "When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I’d composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I’m the same composer I was then."― Gordon Getty "Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft."― Eugen Herrigel "There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s."― Tori Amos