Jacob Whitesides Quotes

I took piano lessons and I wanted to play drums when I was six. Luckily enough, my parents let me have a drum kit in my room - which is kind of crazy.

I love to sing. I'm learning guitar right now.

My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I was in the choir at school.

You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.

My parents have always been very supportive. I didn't go to school because my home was my school.

Lucky enough, through the public school system, I had been able to have some music education, and that gave me something to focus on, and discipline - like a family to feel part of. There was a healthy family.

I've studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it.

When my parents gave me that first guitar, I became totally obsessed. I would stay in my room all the time with it, and my parents were concerned.

Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.

My mum was very good at making me take up musical instruments, so although there was no popular music she made me learn the recorder when I was three, the violin when I was five and the piano when I was seven. I took up the guitar myself when I was 14.

Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.

It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.

As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.

I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear.

I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.

The music itself is very challenging, so I've never really felt the lack of stimulation. I love to be creating; I love to be making things and solving problems, I suppose, and when I'm not, then I'm not an incredibly good person to be around. If I'm not busy, then I think I would be disaster. That's just the way things are.

I dropped out of high school three days into my senior year because I hated it because New York City public school is a mess. I certainly wasn't one for sitting in a classroom. Then I went off to college to North Carolina School of the Arts, then quit that after two years.

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

When you play a sax, that saxophone is irreverent. It's noisy; it's a trickster... you cannot hide the saxophone in your hands, so it's a good teacher.

It was clear to my parents that I had the gift of voice, and they encouraged me to pursue it.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.