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I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.

— Jamie Foxx

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I was a piano player. I love piano playing. I just love all music.

— Maceo Parker

Music has been a huge passion of mine ever since I started playing the piano at age 3. Going to concerts, performing on my own, and listening to my favorite artists growing up confirmed that love for music and made me want to pursue it as a career.

— Daya

Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.

— Robin Thicke

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

— Maximilian Schell

Studying music involves a lot of mathematics and a lot of exercises of memory. Or you've got to be able to be like somebody, to play like somebody, to play Mozart's music the way he played it and how he intended it. You've got to make it perfect, and that's not what I want to do. Although it is beautiful.

— Benjamin Clementine

Music is something I couldn't live without. My dad was into music, he played for pleasure - guitar, piano. I started off doing jazz, singing with a lot of fabulous musicians here in London before I went to the States. And I still take piano lessons every Wednesday.

— Marianne Jean-Baptiste

I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.

— Suzi Quatro

✗Opposing Perspectives

In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.

— Imelda May

Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.

— Paul Weller

I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

— Kevin Kline