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Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.

— Tommy Rettig

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

— Billy Sherwood

I've made a life and career as a professional musician.

— Melissa Auf der Maur

I decided to combine my musical background, business education and creative abilities - and go into the record business.

— Alan W. Livingston

It was just me in my basement honing my skills, hearing songs on the radio and trying to manipulate them and then writing over those, and I started with local artists in Boston, writing records for them.

— Clinton Sparks

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 got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

— T Bone Burnett

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

— John Lurie

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

— Courtney Barnett

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.

— Gabrielle Aplin

✗Opposing Perspectives

I started a recording studio. I started producing people and doing remixes.

— James Iha