Chrissie Hynde Quotes

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

I had this old wind-up phonograph when I was a kid, and I'd listen to records. And the radio.

I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.

I'm admittedly a record guy. Singles and I are a different beast. I'm definitely an overall picture thinker.

I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.

I haven't even graduated from high school yet - and I've realised in the last four years, with all the travelling I've done and all of the movies I've made, that the world is my classroom. I've experienced things I don't know you can necessarily get from reading a history book.

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.

I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for me if I don't go yet.

I think that school just isn't for everyone. A lot of people don't learn well when they're - have to sit in a place for eight hours. A lot of people learn best lying in their own bed, teaching themselves from books. And I was a bad student. I was a brat. If I was a teacher, I would not have liked myself.

I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to the main branch of the Carnegie Library in Oakland where they had all the books in the world... I felt suddenly liberated from the constraints of a pre-arranged curriculum that labored through one book in eight months.

I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.

I had never attended high school, but I was fairly well read.

My mom and dad decided to homeschool us - I'm one of eight - because they really wanted us to be outside and learn some other fundamentals instead of it being school all day in a classroom.

I'm the die-hard that still goes out to buy records.

I got a lot of vinyl, a lot of music in general in the house.

My dad is a huge music and vinyl fan.

Ashok Mehta did not go to any institute. He did not carry the baggage of formal education.

I'm an audiophile and have been collecting records for as long as I can remember.

I have all of Kendrick Lamar on vinyl.

I don't thrive in a school or academic environment, I found out. I thrive better in the world outside the small academy because I find it hard to explain what I'm doing.

School really didn't work for me.

I was home-schooled my entire life and never been in a classroom.