Andra Day Quotes

From the time I started school, it was clear to everyone that I wasn't learning at the same pace as other kids.

I was a dummy in school.

I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

I wasn't the best student. I wasn't stupid, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention.

To be perfectly honest with you, I was partying a lot in school. I didn't have any good study habits from high school because I just kind of got by on being a jock.

I wasn't good at school.

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

I wasn't a good student in high school. I mean, I got through it, but unless it had something to do with music, it didn't really interest me.

I sucked in school.

When I went to college, I was doing well in school, but I didn't have any drive to study.

In primary school I was terrible. I don't think I was particularly well behaved in high school, but I started to apply myself.

In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

I was allergic to school. I was completely befuddled by school. I was trying so hard, but I couldn't succeed. I took geometry for four years, the same course over and over again, and I did not graduate with my senior class. I finally passed geometry after doing summer school, and eventually, I graduated.

I never thrived in high school.

Academic studies in general is not something that I'm very good at.

I was a bum at school. I never liked learning, and stupid ideas used to come to mind.

My grades in high school were not very good. I was that kind of perfectionist that figured if you can't do it perfectly, why do it at all?

I was hopeless at high school - I failed everything but Latin.

What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.

School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.

I don't know whether I much enjoyed education. I was not academically gifted.

In school, I was an underachiever.

In the end, I did end up repeating seventh grade.

Academically, I was thick. School wasn't bad, but I was.