Clique Quote by Alicia Keys

Music was always a huge part of me, but I always did it on the side. I didn't even take any music classes in…

— Daya

I was crazy for music as a high school kid and a college kid.

— Alexandra Patsavas

I don't even know what made me start wanting to do music. It just... happened. Because I sat in my basement all the time,…

— Clinton Sparks

I knew I wanted to be in music ,but I didn't know my role, so I did everything from interning at Rolling Stone to…

— Mark Ronson

Then, in high school, I had a kind of mental breakdown; I didn't want to go to school anymore. It felt pointless. It was…

— Michelle Zauner

So many people I was at school with have all ended up being musicians and putting records out.

— Kieran Hebden

You never know that this is the moment when you're in the moment. When I was sixteen I moved to a smaller town in…

— Stuart Hamm

Being in the high-school band was some of the funnest years of my life.

— GRiZ

School was very important to me ,and music was what kept me coming back.

— Darius Rucker

When I look at music, everything is blurred, and I like it that way. I grew up like that, hanging out with different types…

— Travis Barker

I went to 13 schools in 12 years. We moved all over the place. Music was the only thing that I could get behind...…

— Ronnie Dunn

It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform,…

— Henry Rollins