Mura Masa Quotes

I went to school for marketing for one year before I dropped out of college to make music.

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.

My parents were so far from the music world that they couldn't conceive how you could make a living. But for me, it was the only solution for the rest of my life.

I want to write, I want to sing. I want to do the same thing for others, have my music, hopefully do that for others one day, not realizing what I sort of had to climb. I had an idea a little bit, but I think that I underestimated the whole thing.

Law became boring, but like every job I've done, it helped prepare me for a career in music.

I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.

I'm constantly thinking about what I'll do next. I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I hope that it lasts, but you just don't know, because it's not in your hands, you don't make the decision.

I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music.

I dedicated almost 12 years to the music industry before having children.

I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.

My high school career counsellor said I shouldn't pursue music as a career.

Being my own boss and working inside an industry that's not really an industry, I need to keep busy and keep working. The only way to make money in music - unless you're managing someone - is to tour, and even that depends on where you are at.

I moved to London to go to dance school when I was about 17, but then I realized that I didn't want to be a dancer anymore, so I dropped out after five or six weeks. All I wanted to do was sing and make music.

The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.

Acting kind of pays my bills more than music does.

When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.

Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

I've been wanting to go into music ever since I can remember. I mean even before I became an actor. I just thought it would be a tough field to break into, so I became an actor instead.

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.

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

I'm actually one of the few kids in my grade, especially girls, who didn't end up going to college, just because I already knew what I wanted to do. I had already been actively working in music before I graduated.

Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.

We have to make a living and you can't do that playing bluegrass.

I got a sociology degree and then had an opportunity to go to graduate school. But I said no, because I wanted to give songwriting a shot.

I didn't think it would be possible for me to do music professionally. I was afraid to speak up and say I wanted to become a musician.