Dan Deacon Quotes

I decided to study music my last year in high school.

I went to college to make music and study music.

First of all I listen to music. I like music.

Studying music in a conservatory would be stifling for me, although I respect people who can do it. And by no means am I an expert at notating music or music theory - that's not really my world.

I am permanently a student of people who make great songs, but besides sort of learning by absorption, I just love listening to music, hearing what's going on, hearing new things or new old things.

I studied classical music for a year. Then, I studied jazz for a year at the New School, and then I got kicked out. You had to go to your class, so I don't know if that counts as studying. I didn't study jazz. I was supposed to.

When I went to college, it became more of a hobby, and that's when I think I got the realest music education. It wasn't something that I had to do. It wasn't an obligation.

And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

I went to the Brit School for the performing arts in Croydon at 14, picking music as my main subject, and I'm so glad I did. I knew lots of people who'd gone there, so I always had my mind set on it.

I love music. I listen to a lot of it.

I definitely make time for music.

I like music, a lot of different types of music.

I love all kinds of music.

I think there are people who really always have and always will care about the quality of music in general, about the sound of the music, things like that.

I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.

I've never loved listening to music.

I never played music, but it's an important thing ... the studying, the inspiration.

As much as I like to explore the world, I explore music - from classical to rock.

I have always enjoyed different kinds of music.

I like music a lot.

I'm really passionate about music.

I really was kind of like a musical nerd. I would watch VH1's 'Behind The Music.' That was heavy when I was a kid. I would sit up and want to watch that all day instead of going outside sometimes.

Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.

I'm a musical person, and that's what I want my life to be about.

I encourage the study of music. And the immersion. 'Cause my life has been so enriched by being involved in music as I have.