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I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.

— Charles Soule

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Music pulled me like a gravitational force. I entered college as a physics major but left as a Bachelor of Music, a degree with the same practical application as, say, one in the History of Chinese Poetry.

— Marshall Brickman

Music has always been a large part of my life, and I'm very fortunate to be able to start a career doing something I love.

— Armaan Malik

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

— Awkwafina

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 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

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 had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business.

— Ray Stevens

I knew I wanted to be in music, but I didn't know my role, so I did everything from interning at Rolling Stone to writing heavy metal fanzines to playing in a high-school band, and I think all those things probably helped in a way.

— Mark Ronson

✗Opposing Perspectives

I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always a hobby.

— Chet Faker

I went into college undeclared. I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew that music was obviously this central big important thing in my life that I was gonna keep doing.

— Kina Grannis