"I ended up turning down a full scholarship……" — Emeril Lagasse
"I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school."
More Conservatory Quotes
- I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music… — Tori Amos
- Inspired teachers ... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and… — John Jay Chapman
- I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. — Bernie Worrell
- Once in a while, a teacher gets rewarded with a brilliant student. My two years with Dan Szabo at the… — Bob Brookmeyer
- Africa may yet prove to be the spiritual conservatory of the world ...When the civilised nations in consequence of their… — Edward Wilmot Blyden
- I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for… — Wendell Pierce
- I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory. — Lance Reddick
- I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City. — Placido Domingo
- I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome. — Cecilia Bartoli
- There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's… — Charlie Haden
- Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can… — Ryan Sypek
- I didn't go to a conservatoire, and I have certain low opinions of certain aspects of the conservatory experience. — Mark Morris