Vivian Campbell Quotes

I just quit in the third year of high school and started singing at amateur hours.

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 played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living.

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.

Aside from a brief stint as a writing tutor during graduate school, I have managed to avoid respectable employment all my adult life.

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

I dropped out of college and started gigging around Brighton.

I didn't go to college and I worked so I could play music. That was my goal.

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

I left school at 15, didn't pick up my GCSEs, didn't do A-levels, didn't go to uni.

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.'

Music is by no means something I was like, 'I'm going to make a career out of this!' It's the only thing I know how to do, so it was more like, 'I hope to God I can make a career out of this!'

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.

I came out to L.A. in '78 to be a musician. I didn't get into comedy until the mid-Eighties.

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 chose to do comedy instead of going to college.

I'm not a girl who started getting into music and using my femininity to get attention. When I was getting into it, it was all pure skill.

As a child, I was always very interested in music and had friends who were in the music business. I kind of accidentally fell into it and loved it. There was no reason not to - it was a great career.

When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.

When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

I wanted to be a vet, a nurse, a chef - I mean, anything but the music industry. But once I hit high school, the bug really bit me. You can't deny where you come from and what's in your genes, and music definitely was. I haven't looked back since.

I even have nephews who make music, my daughter makes music. I don't know what advice to give them these days. It's really a tough industry to break into.

I went to college a little bit, and that didn't work out, and I didn't finish. So, I would play in bars until I ran out of money, and then I'd get a real job.

I went to art school, and I wanted to be an artist since I was 5. I basically moved to New York to do art, and I just sort of fell into doing music at an early age.

I knew I wanted to be in music, but I didn't know my role, so I did everything from interning at Rolling Stone to writing heavy metal fanzines to playing in a high-school band, and I think all those things probably helped in a way.