Being Quote by Laura Mvula

I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to…

— Gyorgy Ligeti

I always hankered to be a composer - I was mad about music, though I never studied seriously, and can't read a note. But…

— Conrad Aiken

When I left university, I didn't want to jump into anything right away. Music certainly wasn't a burning ambition.

— Chris de Burgh

I wanted to be involved in music and I felt I needed to get in quick. I didn't want to spend four years in…

— Guy Oseary

I wouldn't have wasted a lot of time pursuing music. I was very lucky that my first demos got accepted.

— Amy Macdonald

I suppose I was affected by raw sounds and timbres more than a lot of other composers. Had I been involved with orchestral composing,…

— Wendy Carlos

I wasted a lot of my talent in the '90s because the money was so big, and I was making so much money, I…

— John Daly

Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.

— Paul Weller

In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working…

— Imelda May

I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did.

— Nick Hornby

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 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