![[As a kid] I felt it was really weird that music schools behaved like a conveyor belt to make performers for those symphony orchestras. If you were really good and practiced your violin for a few hours a day for ten years you might be invited to this VIP elite club. For me music was not about that. It is about freedom and expression and individuality and impulsiveness and spontaneity. It wasn't so Apollonian; it was more Dionysian.](/assets/img/quote-photos/as-a-kid-i-felt-it-was-really-weird-that-music-schools-behaved-like-a-conveyor.jpg)
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I went to 13 schools in 12 years. We moved all over the place. Music was the only thing that I could get behind... I wasn't that good at socializing. I'm still not. Ronnie Dunn
school home opportunity
The west has decided to channel money and effort into studying other customs and practices, but no one has really given other people the chance to study western customs and practices, except at schools maintained by white expatriates, or by allowing the rich from other cultures to study in Oxford or Paris. What happens then is that they return home to organise fundamentalist movements, because they feel solidarity with those of their compatriots who lack the opportunity for such education. Umberto Eco
school rocks band
Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame. Tyler Hilton
school people different
I was kind of a floater [in high school]. I got along with different types of people but I just was not cool, and definitely a late bloomer. Tyler Blackburn
school gay people
I came from a pretty accepting community, and my school had a lot of openly gay and LGBT-plus people. When I joined YouTube, I saw a lot more hostility than I saw in my everyday life. Tyler Oakley
school successful boots
I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful. Tre Cool
school years band
And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school. Travis Barker
school high-school stills
My chops are still up, even though I`m not still in high school.
kids mention
Kids are being told they can't mention God. Kelly Shackelford
kids line offered people players school walking
Kids walking to school are getting offered rides, players are getting let in line at the cafeteria, people are doing little things to show support. It's really great.
kids people today
Kids today need to know that people think they're special. Each day and each thing that they do is so precious. Linda Jones
kids
Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that. R. L. Stine
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kids
He couldn't be home, that's why he always had his kids around. Shelton Quarles
kids
He didn't have to run. A lot of kids wouldn't have,
kids love plays
He just plays the game. You've got to love kids like that. Steve Collins
kids
Kids think of us as being totally over the hill. Thurston Moore
expression gene major separates
We think gene expression is a major part of what separates chimps and humans. E. B. White
expression mirrors worry
Annabeth recognized something else in her face, too - in the hard set of her mouth and the deliberate way she raised her chin like she was ready to accept any challenge. Reyna was forcing a look of courage, while holding back a mixture of hopefulness and worry and fear that she couldn't show in public. Annabeth knew that expression. She saw it every time she looked in a mirror. Rick Riordan
expression your-side hey
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expression default homicidal
Nick looked vaguely homicidal, but that was sort of his default expression. Sarah Rees Brennan
expression leader political
A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that are inexcusable and are an expression of opportunism and treachery. Vladimir Lenin
expression giving able
Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once. Virginia Woolf
expression challenges east
I consider the modernization of the Middle East the central challenge of our time. This region behaves as if it were disturbed, if you'll excuse the clinical expression. Zalmay Khalilzad
expression trying able
I am freely able to express myself honestly to the public without trying to polish it over, trying to hide something. I'm just trying to be free with my expression. Ziggy Marley
expression self denial
I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial. Winston Churchill