Able Quote by Natalie Jeremijenko

I studied science. And I had a group of friends who were heavily into music and theatre.

— Mohit Chauhan

I went to college to study drama where I discovered I had no talent and after a period of dropping out majored in cultural…

— Elizabeth Hand

I was told growing up that the arts were just a hobby - that I couldn't do it as a career.

— Mena Massoud

I did go to a performing arts school, so that facilitated my creativity, though I ended up going in a more musical direction.

— Anonymous

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

Though music was not in my blood, I always considered myself belonging to music, and that remained with me throughout my studies. The studies…

— Adnan Sami

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

— Ray Davies

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write…

— Sally Kirkland

In my mid-twenties, I was with a conducting career, but I had never been to university and I wanted to. There were things I…

— Simon Rattle

Really the moment I decided I wanted to do art seriously, I left art school. I wanted to be with people who were interested…

— Aleksandra Mir

For a long time in the 1970s, I was experimenting to build musical instruments and use them. I did a lot of ethnic music…

— Yoshi Wada

I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions.

— Cosima Spender