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I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.

— Don Cornelius

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I was always in love with music, but my parents never really saw that I had talent, and it was really just by chance that I made it into the Menuhin School, and from then on my life changed. And that was when I realized, OK, this is what I want to do. But, until then, it was really just a passion, a hobby.

— Richard Hyung-ki Joo

From an early age, I was infatuated with music. I always loved it and was always dancing or playing something.

— Tyler Farr

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

— Joaquin Phoenix

One of the things that was a blessing for me is my parents were music lovers. Neither of my parents played an instrument, but they were avid record buyers. And I grew up at every age listening to all kinds of music.

— Gustavo Santaolalla

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

— John Philip Sousa

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

✗Opposing Perspectives

When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.

— Flea

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

I've always been interested in music. In high school, I did a lot of musical theater, and I loved it.

— Rosanna Pansino

I love, love, love music - have since I was a kid, and I'm still really into music - and I became a singer because I was too stupid to learn how to play an instrument, I guess.

— Cassandra Peterson