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Music was always the distraction, so it was the obvious choice to pursue. My dad always said to find a job I love to do, that way it wouldn't feel like a job. So I did that.

— Jason Mraz

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I was always in love with music, but my parents never really saw that I had talent, and it was really just by chance that I made it into the Menuhin School, and from then on my life changed. And that was when I realized, OK, this is what I want to do. But, until then, it was really just a passion, a hobby.

— Richard Hyung-ki Joo

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

— Lady Gaga

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

— Oliver Sim

I was working a corporate job, but I really wanted to do music.

— Awkwafina

I don't feel like I chose to do music as much as I made a decision to not stop doing music.

— Jakob Dylan

Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.

— Eddie Vedder

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

People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.

— Garth Brooks

✗Opposing Perspectives

My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.

— Abigail Washburn

I thought I had everything going for me. I wasn't listening to nobody. And my dad was like, 'Uh-uh, you can't make money from music. You have to be a doctor, a lawyer, engineer. Something that's going to do something for this world. Music doesn't do anything.' And I had to fight that, his passion, and fight the society that I was from.

— Jidenna