Become Quote by Joshua Prince-Ramus

I've reinvented myself many times in my life. I thought I'd become a concert violinist but burned out at 17. I thought I'd go…

— Gretchen Carlson

I was a piano performance major at USC. I left before I graduated because I realized at some point I wasn't going to be…

— James Newton Howard

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

It was during the gap between 12th class and college, that I realized my passion for music, although I did have a keen ear…

— Bhuvan Bam

I went to university (Brown), I worked as a designer, I competed in Olympic sport (rowing) ... and I ended up being a musician.…

— Dhani Harrison

There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't…

— Andy Summers

My first ambition in life, I made up my mind I was going to become Miles Davis. I studied music, music theory. I played…

— Chris Gardner

My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of…

— Zubin Mehta

I thought I was gonna get a doctorate in composition or be a composer and be at a university for the rest of my…

— Julia Holter

Playing in my early bands, working as a studio musician, producing and going to art school was, in retrospect, my apprenticeship. I was learning…

— Jimmy Page

I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when…

— Roger Bannister

Well before I was in a band, I wanted to be everything from a vet, an astronaut, an archeologist was a big one. It…

— Joan Jett