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I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs. — Michael Cerveris

I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd. — Mayer Hawthorne

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild. — T Bone Burnett

I listened to a lot of old school, golden era music. It gave me a lot of insight on how to rap and give my all. — Big K.R.I.T.

Football is the priority, even more than school. Art is frowned upon. I had to sneak music in. — Kevin McCall

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz. — Norah Jones

My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I was in the choir at school. — Lyle Lovett

I was awful at science at school, as a subject, because I didn't have the discipline. But, I was awful at music, as well, and I loved music. — Dallas Campbell

I don't do 'black music,' I don't do 'white music' ... I make fight music, for high school kids. — Eminem

Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education. — Aristotle.

I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.' — Huey Lewis

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school. — James Vincent McMorrow

I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music. — Gregg Allman

My grandmother used to babysit us when I was younger, and would always play old-school music. It gets to me. Grandma had some good taste. — Virgil Green

I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program. — Angela Kinsey

After moving back to LA, I definitely would love to go to school and do more music in between acting as well as finally learning how to drive! — Megan Lee

I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music. — Flea

As far as music school goes, I walked through Berkelee one time. — Buddy Rich

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music. — Barry White

I went to school for folk music back when I was a teenager and learned hundreds of songs. — Roger McGuinn

A LIE IS LIKE A BAD NEIGHBORHOOD;
IT'S NOT SAFE TO LIVE IN — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier

I've always been interested in music. In high school, I did a lot of musical theater, and I loved it. — Rosanna Pansino

I took music theory in high school and dropped out halfway through the semester because it was ruining music for me. — Blake Judd

Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet. — Dido Armstrong

NEVER BE SO BUSY BEING THE LIGHT FOR OTHERS THAT YOU NEGLECT TO SHINE ON YOURSELF — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier

I've never had a real job in my life. I didn't learn anything, I was terrible at school. It was just this thing. Music was all I wanted to do. — Hans Zimmer

In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music. — Antonin Dvorak

Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school. — Clark Terry

My parents were both high-school music teachers. — Renee Fleming

My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music. — Maira Kalman

I was a history major in school. I review the past a lot and think about music history and how culture unfolds. — Bruce Pavitt

I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school. — Emeril Lagasse

There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern. — Lenny Kravitz

In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama. — Adam Lambert

I almost became a music major, but somehow I was so enthralled with the camera and becoming a director that I stuck with film school and theatrics. — James Brolin

HOLDING ONTO HOPE
MAY MAKE YOU TIRED BUT IF YOU LET GO OF HOPE, THE FALL CAN SPIRITUALLY KILL YOU!
HOLD ON — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians — Edward Albee

I was a jaded high schooler, I was still into pop music, though not as sincerely as I am now. It was more tongue-in-cheek back then. — Girl Talk

My throat holds my breath hostage. And my heartbeat? Prestissimo, my music instructor called it in high school. Very, very fast. — Kennedy Ryan

I can not imagine my life if I didn't have a music program in my school. — Beyonce Knowles

Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing. — Adam Levine

I went to school for marketing for one year before I dropped out of college to make music. — Theophilus London

I wasn't that bothered with school; I was too mad into horses. But I liked reading and was good enough at English and always liked music. — Kate Thompson

If I wasn't singing country music for a living, I was actually going to school to be a doctor. — Dustin Lynch

After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously. — Dan Hawkins

I was 17, still in school, and my manager saw me in school, and then we hooked up, and after that, I went straight into making music. — Erik Hassle

I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera. — Anna Kendrick

I would probably keep it old school with The Isley Brothers. Their music relaxes me and I can listen to it all day. — Virgil Green

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays. — Theo James

I was crazy for music as a high school kid and a college kid. — Alexandra Patsavas

I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me performing at my school's talent show. — Lorde

Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools. — Martin Luther

I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school. — Anton Yelchin

When it comes to Fashion Week, I'm over the too-cool-for-school runway experience with loud music in a raw space that's inconvenient for everyone. — Rodger Berman

I don't think I would have become President if it were not for my school music program. — William J. Clinton

By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to vocational music school to really pursue it. — Damien Chazelle

And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books. — James Weldon Johnson

When a music teacher that I had at school was taken ill and we had a variety show and I had to fill in - that's when I realized I had a voice. — Lily Allen

Even before making music I was always someone that you had to get to know, at school or elementary. I walked the hallways. I would take your pizza — Rick Ross

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love - you know, things I don't care about anymore. — Lady Gaga

My high school career counsellor said I shouldn't pursue music as a career. — Chet Faker

I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music. — Mandy Patinkin

I got along with mostly everyone, but music school does that to you. We had to sing in a choir all the time, so we had to get along with everyone. — Seinabo Sey

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater. — Morgan Freeman

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings. — Marilyn Manson

I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome. — Cecilia Bartoli

There's a lot of feeling that the school curriculum has been bare-bones, just drill and, again, no art, music, and so on and so forth — John Merrow

I AM GRATEFUL FOR ALL OF THE
BACKSTABBING
BECAUSE IT MADE ME
A STRAIGHT-SHOOTER! — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier

I went to music school, and I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student. — Bjork

I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me? — Bette Midler

Every child should have time for arts, music, sports, drama, robotics, school newspapers and the like, not to mention recess and play. — Chris Gabrieli

I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school. — Don Cornelius

I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music. — Skylar Grey

I grew up loving music, like, loving it. I was involved in church choir, leading worship and all the choirs in my school - even glee club. — Kelsea Ballerini

I'm not old school, like, "Aw, man, I gotta do my music like I did in '98." I just go with the flow. I don't try to change anything. — Juicy J

Now whenever I left class to go to the boys' room, I worried that I would end up on the blue tiled floor in a puddle of piss and blood. — Kenneth Logan

Elliott Carter does not write the kind of music that the kids go off to school whistling. — Andre Previn

I wish I finished music school, because then I feel like I could talk more about the dissonant notes. — Petra Haden

I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane. — Beyonce Knowles

My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York. — Debra Wilson

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition. — Yoko Ono

I was definitely inspired by gospel music, or old-school R&B; I got into some Good God gospel compilations. — Yannis Philippakis

I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip. — Alicia Keys

I don't like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school. — Shelby Lynne

I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over! — Jason Aldean

Just so people know, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music is not at all about celebrity or fame or being a star. It's an academic music school. — Flea

I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music. — Emeli Sande

High school music teachers ... nobody makes a living off it. — David Ogden Stiers

I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music. — Kevin Eubanks

My school was OK, but I just wanted to do music. I was a bit of a daydreamer. I wish I'd gone back and paid more attention. — Eliza Doolittle

I spoke English at school and Spanish at home, and I'm always eating Dominican food, listening to Dominican music. — Prince Royce

She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music.
She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school. — Jerry Spinelli

A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school. — Flea

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. — Flea

I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band. — Alison Krauss

I exercise; I have a big career. I'm a parent, and I run a music school. — Flea

I wrote the music column in my high school newspaper. — Eddie Trunk

I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school. — Tommy Lee

Even when I was coming through school, I was a loner and I used to study music and play it and play it, and I was in bands. — Billy West

The best musicians know this music isn't about "schools" at all. Like my father says, "There's only one school, the school of 'Can you play? — Wynton Marsalis