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I think education was the key for me, and that's what I tell kids. That base in the classics gave me something to springboard from, which I wouldn't have had if I'd come out to Los Angeles early and been guest punk of the week on 'Hill Street Blues.'

— Jimmy Smits

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

— Morgan Freeman

I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.

— Kris Allen

I went to a boarding school when I was 13, and it was a very arty school, so there was an opportunity for a lot more. I joined a band and so on. We would do concerts at school, and I would play cover tunes and thought, 'This is really great.'

— Teddy Thompson

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

— Steve Earle

I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.

— Gary Sinise

I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.

— Brie Larson

When I was younger, acting, singing and dancing was what it was all about. That's really what kept me in school because I was really naughty otherwise.

— Suki Waterhouse

✗Opposing Perspectives

For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on.

— Flea

From an early age, music was my only thing. You come from Detroit, you learn how to make the most of what you can do best.

— Danny Brown

School work and intellectual interests such as music and the arts were not especially important to me while I was growing up, although mathematics, my favorite subject, was fun. Baseball was my first passion: I played sand lot and Little League and rooted for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

— Robert C. Merton