Fela Kuti Quotes

If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.

When I went to college, I thought I was going to become a professional musician. I was a French horn player, so I went to Yale to study with a very unusual French horn player.

I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.

I went to college to make music and study music.

I had teachers in high school to point me in the direction of the University of Indiana School of Music, and after IU, I went on to study at the Academy of Arts in Philadelphia. I graduated in 2006.

I went to the Conservatory, studying piano and singing, up to high school - but I only did four years because I then had to start working, and the jobs were so good that I didn't stop.

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.

I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.

In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.

Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day.

Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.

I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.

Going to college and studying music is not a bad idea at all. I don't know if you can go to college and be taught heart.

I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music.

When I finished school, everyone wanted to go to a good university and become a lawyer or a doctor. My A-levels were sort of chosen for me.

My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that's the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It's helped me a lot with my career.

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.

Rap ain't out there for everybody; everybody can't be a rapper. Everybody can't be a singer; anybody can't just be a songwriter, but it may - there's some profession out there you can be in.

I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.

I started in high school to be interested in music and from there, I decided to study in college. Yeah, you're right, I did start late, but luckily, because of my schooling, I picked up a lot of ground pretty quick.

My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.

As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music.

I have a degree in music, yeah, from the University of Montana. I studied voice and composition and conducting and all that.

Being a classical musician, you can go to school for it; you can go get a degree. Even as a composer, there is a certain career path you can follow, but becoming a rock musician is a much more elusive career. How do you learn that or do that?

I was definitely thinking I'd go to college and make music on the side.