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But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose.

— Gunther Schuller

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

At first, I was only interested in music, but I spent so much time in the clubs and seeing fashions change. So naturally, I developed an interest in it.

— Tiesto

I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music.

— Peter Hammill

I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.

— Eric Avery

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

— Marilyn Manson

Music was something I was encouraged to do, which I appeared to be quite good at, but it was never a passion. Writing was always my first love.

— Allan Guthrie

I was interested in music and making movies about musicians, but my own experiences, and doing what it felt like for me to be a drummer? Nah, I wasn't interested in that.

— Damien Chazelle

I loved music - listening and playing - but of course I could not imagine I would be a professional musician. It really happened step by step.

— Rokia Traore

Playing in my early bands, working as a studio musician, producing and going to art school was, in retrospect, my apprenticeship. I was learning and creating a solid foundation of ideas, but I wasn't really playing music.

— Jimmy Page

✗Opposing Perspectives

I had no interest or intention of ever writing music. I was a professional violinist in my 20s. I was obsessed with conducting, and I was conducting as much as I could, and I was studying as much as I could. I went to USC; I got an undergrad degree in violin and a master's degree in conducting.

— David Newman

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

— John Philip Sousa