I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I came to L.A. in 1970, and my desire and my training was to be a studio musician, which I had read about in my senior year in high school.
I have a degree in music, yeah, from the University of Montana. I studied voice and composition and conducting and all that.
I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music.
Before I'd even started doing music or having opportunities with my own music, I was studying production and business and stuff anyway. I knew there were so many jobs within the music industry - songwriting or session playing or working at a label - and I was really interested in how it all works.
I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.
I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.
I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.
I didn't have any knowledge of the music industry when I first got to L.A., and I really didn't know on a creative level what I wanted to sound like, so I had to do a lot of experimenting. It led to a spiral of depression and being broke.
I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.