Gord Downie Quotes

I loved the college experience of studying.

I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.

I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.

When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square.

My favorite college experience was probably leaving college.

I loved my time at OSU. It was unbelievable experience, and I'm definitely going to miss it.

Upon arriving, meeting their teachers and signing up for classes, these students began to realize that their attendance at Delaware State University was not a goal achieved, but rather a dream being sewn - a first step, if you will.

For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper.

I had always dreamed of living in Chapel Hill. When I was a college student at Hollins University in Virginia, I came down to Chapel Hill for summer school and just loved it.

And sex is definitely part of college life.

For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977.

I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.

I was known around the college for jamming in the lounge.

I just want to go to university and have fun - I want to be an ordinary student. I'm only going to university. It's not like I'm getting married - though that's what it feels like sometimes.

I have always loved the college atmosphere - sometimes too much, which is why I spent so long at LSU.

I went to college at University of Tennessee.

Penn State was an awesome school. When I went and visited there, I was like 'Alright, I want to spend four years of college here.'

I really love Duke. My plan going in is to stay four years.

I came to Nashville to go to Belmont. I went to school to be a student.

Obviously, college was an unbelievable experience.

Connecticut is home for life. I'm so glad I chose to go to school here.

The chips fall into place, but the educational experience I had at Cal, second to none.

Boston was incredible. I had some of the best experiences of my life there at Berklee because I met a bunch of other people who were at the exact same stage in life and interest as me. There were American and international students all wrapped up in the Berklee environment, where you basically did nothing but music 24/7.

I was just a young kid from Parma, Ohio, and I went to college at Miami University of Ohio.

I love Duke. Wish I could've stayed a second year, but I had other things to do.