I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.
I love music, and I once thought about doing a choral scholarship, but the people put me off.
By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to vocational music school to really pursue it.
When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.
I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.
When I finished school, I didn't continue to go to university, because I decided I wanted to do music.
I didn't go to university. I didn't go to culinary school, barely made it through high school.
I went to the Conservatory, studying piano and singing, up to high school - but I only did four years because I then had to start working, and the jobs were so good that I didn't stop.