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Personalize Your Music Teaching Website With Favorite Quotes

Sun April 26th, 2009 by Chris Foley

quotations“In art, one has more often to fight against oneself, and the victories one wins are perhaps the most beautiful.” –Claude Debussy

One of the best ways to capture the attention of someone coming to your music teaching website is with a musical quote. Fortunately, most of the website templates that are available with Music Teacher’s Helper come already pre-loaded with one.

However, you can customize your website to reflect your philosophy and agenda as a music educator by adding a quote of your own choice. After you’ve logged in and are at your studio dashboard, go through the following dropdown menus to change your website’s default quote:

Home —> My Studio Website —> Website Preferences

On the Website Preferences page just below the the name and address boxes for your studio, there is a Favorite Quote area. Just pop in the quote of your choice, the author, press Save, and your website will reflect the change. Take a look at my own teaching website for an example of a customized musical quote in the wild.

Not sure which musical quote to put up? Here are links to some musical quote pages with plenty of selection to choose from:

You can even rotate your quotes from time to time to keep your website’s visual appeal interesting to those who visit it regularly (ie. your students and their parents, hopefully). Remember to choose quotes wisely, as this small tweak can make a huge difference in the first few seconds that a prospective student or parent visits your website and digests the initial impression of what you have to offer.

“All music is folk music. I ain’t never heard no horse sing.” –Louis Armstrong

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About the Author

Chris Foley

Chris Foley is a pianist, teacher, examiner, adjudicator, and blogger based in Oakville, Ontario. He currently teaches at the Royal Conservatory of Music where he also serves as head of the voice department at the Conservatory School. As a member of Toronto's Tapestry New Works Studio Company, he has coached and performed in numerous workshops and performances of contemporary opera. In 2005, he started the Collaborative Piano Blog, which has grown to become one of the most well-known blogs about classical music. He has also made numerous media appearances, including playing piano for the first two seasons of Bathroom Divas (a reality show about opera singers), an interview about teaching piano to adult beginners on CBC Television's Living in Toronto, an interview in the Toronto Star about video games and music education, and an upcoming commercial for RCM Examinations.

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  1. Hi Chris,
    What i nice blog you have!
    And a very inspirationel quote by Debussy.
    I found this blog through Twitter. (Twitter Power!!;-))
    Greetings,
    EarMaster

    by EarMaster — Wed Apr 29, 2009 @ 1:14 am

  2. Thanks, Earmaster!

    by Chris Foley — Wed Apr 29, 2009 @ 5:01 am

  3. Nice info, Chris

    by Berbagi — Thu May 21, 2009 @ 1:09 pm

  4. Education that Rocks!, That's my American Music Institute

    by Alvin — Thu Jul 9, 2009 @ 4:26 am

  5. nice quotes, i like them all

    by bass institute — Thu Jul 9, 2009 @ 4:28 am

  6. Timely advice, given today's students' penchant for pithy, focused sayings (Think Twitter).

    The sayings pack twice the punch when they are thematically-linked with the material to follow--a preface of sorts.

    by Ed Witten — Thu Jan 21, 2010 @ 7:20 pm

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