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I had a friend who had been teaching music for a long time, and he knew a bunch of teachers, so I just put up the money and started a school.

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.

My parents were both high-school music teachers.

Music isn't only a profession.

You can work on music a few lifetimes.

I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.

Music is not a very stable business. It comes and it goes, and so does money, but your education stays with you for the rest of your life. When you have that education, and you have nothing to fall back on, you can get a get a job anywhere.

I have my dream job. I get paid to make music.