“When I went off to college, I was expecting to be a concert musician. In music school I heard all of these kids who were just unbelievable. And I understand that you can be very, very good, but there's something that separates very, very good from great, and I knew that I wasn't great.” KidsSchoolHeardCollegeMusicianVery GoodConcertsExpectingUnbelievableOff To College Author:Condoleezza Rice
“I wanted to be a singer. I wanted to be a musician. I wanted to travel and write songs and be a good songwriter. It came to me slowly after college.” WritingWantedSongCollegeMusicianSingersSongwriters Author:Brett Dennen
“High school and college were my punk, formative years. I was playing hardcore, learning to be a musician. In bands, you tour, but you're paid nothing; you're playing to 50 people in a basement, sleeping in a van, and you love it.” PeopleYearsSchoolSleepCollegeBandMusicianHigh SchoolPaidPunkVansBasementsHardcoreSleeping InFormative Years Author:Steve Aoki
“I don't really have a career as a jazz musician. I don't really have a career as a classical musician. I don't really have a career as a college professor, and yet I did all those things and I did them well. I put out some records in the 1980's and 1990's that changed the way some trumpet players played.” WayWellsCareersRecordsPlayerChangedCollegeMusicianJazzProfessorsClassical MusicJazz MusicTrumpetsJazz MusicianClassical MusiciansCollege Professors Author:Paul Smoker
“It's was all the internet. I started writing songs in high school, right about the time of the onset of Napster. I went to college in Dallas, and when I'd get back from class I'd have fans emailing me from different areas of the country asking when the album was going to be out and when I was going on tour. It was crazy, because I didn't even consider myself a professional musician.” WritingDifferentCountrySchoolSongCrazyCollegeInternetMusicianHigh School Author:Graham Colton
“I went to college and stage school, and thought about acting, but... I just don't like actors very much! They're not as fun as musicians.” SchoolActorsFunActingStageCollegeMusician Author:Martha Wainwright
“My life has had a lot of fits and starts: before I studied literature at all I was a musician, and began undergrad as a conservatory student. I started studying literature in my third year of college, when I took a poetry course with James Longenbach that was pretty extraordinary. It changed my life.” YearsCoursesLiteratureStudyChangedStudentsCollegeFitMusicianThirdsExtraordinaryChanged My LifeConservatoryStudying Literature Author:Garth Greenwell
“I did a lot of writing when I was in college, and that's what I thought I wanted to do; saying that I wanted to be a writer seemed more reasonable than saying I wanted to be a musician.” WritingWantedCollegeMusicianReasonable Author:Jack Tatum
“I worry about that terribly because the public eye can bring all sorts of unwanted intrusions and problems. But he's treading his own path. I think the modeling is something that Rafferty Law sees as a pastime and something to maybe give him a bit of pocket money. He's a musician mostly. He's in college studying music, which he takes very seriously and I think that is something that he will concentrate on in the future.” ThinkingGivingProblemEyeLawBitsWorryStudyPathCollegeMusicianPocketsModelingUnwantedPastimePublic EyeIntrusionTreadingStudying Music Author:Jude Law
“My abject hatred of actors and the acting world. I went to college as an actor, and halfway through, I switched to playwriting and directing. Then I spent a couple years working in publishing, doing some freelance journalism for The Village Voice and Musician magazine. I thought my life was going to be as a writer, but then I realized I missed performing, so I got into comedy. It was a nice combination of things I was sort of good at. I was a pretty good writer and a decent actor, but I didn't really like acting, and I didn't have the discipline to be a writer.” WorldActingComedyNiceCollegeCoupleDisciplineMusicianHatredI RealizedJournalismPerformingDecentPublishingHalfway Author:Christian Finnegan
“I didn't really think I would be a musician. I always thought I'd be a writer. I wanted to be a writer in college, but I thought I could be a better musician. I loved the process of writing music and lyrics more than I loved the process of sitting at my computer and writing. Because of that, I thought I would be a better musician than a writer.” ThinkingWritingCollegeComputerMusician Author:Leah Siegel
“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.” IfsWantBookFunnyReadingSexEducationCollegeMusicianLibraryIronicReading BooksLibrarianRock MusicCollege EducationSchool EducationLibrary BooksCollege LifeGetting LaidLibraries And LibrariansFormal EducationGoing To CollegeColleges And UniversitiesGreat Sex Author:Frank Zappa