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I naively thought I had to go door to door, find somebody who could record me singing some songs. I didn't know Music Row, I didn't know anything! So after six or seven months, I went back home and went to college.

— David Nail

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.

— Imelda May

With my quick success, I didn't have time to learn the ropes of the music business. Because my first record was such a hit, I was terribly spoiled and I thought I couldn't do anything wrong. I was also desperate to make tons of money because of my responsibility to my daughter. And there was no longer any joy in making music.

— Phoebe Snow

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

— Madonna Ciccone

I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.

— Flea

I went into college undeclared. I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew that music was obviously this central big important thing in my life that I was gonna keep doing.

— Kina Grannis

When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.

— Kaskade

I was 17, still in school, and my manager saw me in school, and then we hooked up, and after that, I went straight into making music.

— Erik Hassle

When I finished school, I didn't continue to go to university, because I decided I wanted to do music.

— Oliver Sim

✗Opposing Perspectives

When I was driving home after registration, I heard this song on the radio, a guy singing about not ever going to class in college and always hanging out and singing for his friends. I laughed and said, I can relate, because it was so much like me. I realized right then I would pull out of school and pursue a music career.

— Kat Edmonson

I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew was that I wanted to write songs; thankfully, I also got to sing them.

— Natasha Bedingfield