Age Quote by Anonymous

I graduated high school a year early and moved to New York when I was 17 to attend the American Musical and Dramatic Academy.

— Mike Faist

Eight kids and a stepmother, and I just wanted to be out of there and so when I got a scholarship from Boston to…

— Quincy Jones

I was always the kid on scholarship, I was a soloist with my company, I'd been working with the symphony since I was 14.

— Summer Glau

At seven years old, I won a scholarship to George Heriot's School, an independent school in Edinburgh, and I was there until I was 17.

— Gavin Esler

I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I…

— Tori Amos

I grew up going to musicals with my mom here in New York, going to Broadway. I used to be in musicals in high…

— Sharon Van Etten

I had gone to the High School of the Performing Arts in New York City.

— Glenne Headly

My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so…

— Tony Visconti

I trained classically for 11 years and then studied musical theater at AMDA New York. My dad is a singer-songwriter, so I followed in…

— Madeline Brewer

I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was…

— Brian Blessed

My own introduction to music came quite early. My father didn't have much of an education, but he was keen for me to get…

— Roger Taylor

I was trying to become a legitimate trumpet player, and I had a scholarship to Eastman School of Music. I was really on my…

— Frankie Avalon