Bits Quote by Jessie Ware

When I was at school, most people were planning on going to university and becoming doctors or lawyers. I wanted to be a singer,…

— Mollie King

I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want…

— Sophie Kinsella

I liked school and was a bit of an all-rounder academically, I struggled with music. I can't hold a note when singing and abandoned…

— Stephen Curry

I never wanted to impress anyone nor had to complete my education just so that my parents could allow me to pursue music.

— Guru Randhawa

By the time I finished school, I found out I wasn't qualified to study anything but music.

— Fela Kuti

I didn't expect to have music as my main thing. I always thought I was going to be a lawyer. When I graduated, I…

— Yuna

I started playing piano and guitar when I was in elementary school, and then I was finally like, 'I want to sing.' So I…

— Ravyn Lenae

I was hellbent on going to drama school, but my mother, rightly, panicked and persuaded me to go to university on the grounds that…

— Phyllida Lloyd

I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play…

— Madonna Ciccone

I was almost on the verge of studying medicine. But then, I realised I would have to give up singing. That is when it…

— Andrea Jeremiah

I had to run away from home in order to be a musician. Because I came from a family of... my father was a…

— Hugh Masekela

You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid — things you liked — on the grounds that…

— Ken Robinson