School Quotes

I knew Fred since I was 14 and was first going to the Old Town School, Fred used to work part-time in the store. Every time I wrote a song Fred would turn on his really good high-class tape recorder, reel-to-reel, and record it. So he's got recordings of me on guitar singing all my songs in his apartment long before I ever recorded for a recording company. I never found out what happened to the tapes.

Man, I hated school. I'd stare at the buttons on the teacher's shirt the whole class.

The punches came fast and hard, lying on my back in the school yard.

I went to Ealing Art School, in London, the year after Pete Townshend left. Music was a sideline to everything we did, and the school was a breeding ground for musicians.

My parents were very strict. They thought boarding school would do me good. So, when I was about seven, I was put in one in India for a while.

At art school, a teacher said: 'The best paintings are when you get lost in a piece of work and start painting in a stream of consciousness.' I wanted to do music, not art, so started writing lyrics that way. The first song I wrote was called 'Ice Cream and Wafers.' The next was 'Holding Back the Years.'

My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.

I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church.

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

Don't let them fool ya, or even try to school ya.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that; so this was just a step for me in that direction.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I've never even been to the 'hood. Not that there's anything wrong with the 'hood.

From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.

You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write, you're giving up your potential.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

The Beatles gave everything they had to give, and more. Going back to the Beatles would be like going back to school.

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.