Being Quote by Paul Young

I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always a hobby.

— Chet Faker

Even in high school, music was just a really fun thing on the side. I don't think I grasped the fact that it could…

— Sigrid

I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.

— Randy Travis

In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student... I was always complaining that music education was too academic.

— Bjork

A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn't like that…

— Mitski

My parents always wanted me to do music because they thought it was such a great extracurricular activity but we never thought it was…

— Kevin Olusola

I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it…

— Eric Burdon

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

We were responding to a period in the 70s when we started that it was very much you cannot be involved in music unless…

— Stephen Mallinder

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 like to say that I had a really good musical education because it was inclusive of all styles of music and I like…

— Joe Louis Walker

In school I was interested in music, but I never saw myself being a musician at that point. Music technology was the only subject…

— Bree Runway