Sarah Vaughan Quotes

I just started singing 'cause I had dropped out of school.

I'm glad I dropped out of high school, man. I wouldn't be where I'm at. I would have had a net. I'm glad I didn't have anything to fall back on, man, because that made me go for my dreams that much harder.

I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.

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.

I left school just shy of 17: I'd started going into touring and that situation.

Dropping the news to my parents that I was skipping my 'dream education' at Chalmers to sit at home recording videos while playing video games was not easy.

At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately deciding to go to university.

I did drop out of school.

I'm this high school dropout. I quit in my sophomore year, when I was 15. I worked for a while in a deli, and when I was almost 17, I got married.

The best decision I ever made was to drop out of school.

If you're planning on dropping out of high school, prepare yourself for the future by repeating aloud each day: 'I'm looking forward to low-paying jobs for the rest of my life.'

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.

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

I didn't want to go to college - I was bored by junior high. So I was in church one day, staring at the stained glass windows and thinking about things, when suddenly I decided that if I could start selling cartoons to magazines, they'd let me quit high school.

When I was younger, I always wanted to be a musician, a performer and an entertainer - but I never thought about becoming a poster or anything like that. It's pretty cool.

I'm a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.

I struggled to keep one foot in music and one in academia. I had worked on my Ph.D. for three years full time before I realized Bad Religion could be a legitimate career.

I would have gone to law school, or gotten a psychology degree. I wasn't interested in sleeping on a futon forever. And what happened is I walked into auditions, and I had nothing to lose, because I had a backup plan.

When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

At an early age, I quit high school at 17 and joined the Air Force.

If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.

I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I'm not proud of this, and I'm not trying to promote it.

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.

I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anything like that, but it's something I'd like to try.

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.