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Music videos were this lucky career opportunity. They were assignments. I was providing a service, and they were meant to be punchy and gimmicky and fun.

— Mark Romanek

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Awkwafina

I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician.

— Flea

When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.

— Kaskade

And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

— Jon Secada

My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off.

— John Lurie

Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.

— Chantal Kreviazuk

I worked with three people who were doing video music shows before MTV.

— Nina Blackwood

✗Opposing Perspectives

I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.

— Kaskade

I guess my job has always been to build the music, direct the videos, to do all the things that usually fall behind the scenes.

— Ryan Lewis

I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.

— Lance Reddick