Unstructured Education Quotes

I never took a music lesson in my life, it just came naturally.

I happened to go to a school when I was a kid and that's all we did, pursue our own interests. It was kind of structured so you ended up knowing everything you were supposed to know, arithmetic, Latin, whatever it was. But almost always it was under your own initiative.

I was in school for a little bit at Rutgers for political science, but it was very loose.

I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.

I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I'm blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.

Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad.