Berklee Quotes & Sayings

It's hard to know where to start. Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts. All you can ever really know is that it's wrapped around you, sometimes a little tighter than you'd like.
But clearly there have been some mistakes. Bad ones. You can tell that just by looking at him. — Jonathan Tropper

You never know that this is the moment when you're in the moment. When I was sixteen I moved to a smaller town in Vermont, and at that time I didn't have a band to play in. So I was forced to play in Top 40 bands and fraternity bands and wedding bands. That was all pop music, but I was listening to Weather Report and classical music. Then I went to Berklee College of Music in 1978, and you had Victor Bailey there, and Steve Vai. And suddenly I was among my ilk. — Stuart Hamm

A work of art must make the rules: rules do not make a work of art ... I tell people I am not a musician; I work with rhythms, frequencies and intensities ... tunes are merely the gossips of music ... — Edgard Varese

You can't be like pop stars, but you can be part of their story. You can be their fan. — Simon Cheshire

There are no natural barriers. It's all music. It's either hip or it ain't. — Lee Morgan

I lived in the States from 1996 till 2000. I attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1997. But I wasn't the most hard-working student. I rarely went to school. At that time, I seriously doubted that you could learn creativity in school. Music isn't something you can just learn from other people. Sometimes I regret missing classes. — Psy

I came to Berklee to study guitar, I really wanted to be a jazz guitarist, and I really came because I really wanted to come for Pat Metheny, and then when I get to Berklee, there's no Pat Metheny, he's not there, and so now what do I do? — Juan Luis Guerra

Andre Tippett was an impact player who consistently played at a level that set him apart. Accounting for him limited what an offense could do. He made quarterbacks nervous.and rightly so. — Raymond Berry

An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality. — John Cage

I didn't try out for bands when I was younger. I got into guitars intensely a couple of years into playing so much by the time I was graduating high school I was accepted into Berklee College of Music. — John Petrucci

The waiter at the King David brought her change, and, in his eyes, his condolences for the meeting that had not taken place. For five hours he had watched her sit in a garden chair, straight-backed and full of anticipation, until hope had abandoned her and she slumped, weary. — Anat Talshir

When I get high anxiety, I vomit. My mom was so stressed out. Then I found out I was staying in John Mayer's old dorm room, and I had a nice roommate. That completely brought me down. I was completely comfortable at Berklee. — Charlie Puth

I don't know how many times someone has come up to me and said, "Hey, Lets dance!". I hate dancing. God, it's stupid. — David Bowie

Being honored at Berklee College of Music; I got a doctorate. I am Doctor Patti. — Patti LaBelle

When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use my own things as they didn't fit any set pattern. When I joined [Chico Hamilton], he helped me immensely to develop my own style. He never forced me in any set way. At all times, he encouraged me to be myself on the instrument. — Gabor Szabo

I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music during high school, like every Saturday. And then I went to Berklee for college, in Boston. — Charlie Puth

Eight kids and a stepmother, and I just wanted to be out of there and so when I got a scholarship from Boston to the Schillinger House, which is now the Berklee School of Music, I couldn't wait to get out of there. — Quincy Jones

Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers ... — Pat Metheny

I think Berklee College of Music had the highest dropout rate of any college - or pretend college - in the United States. Because I think most people think they're going to be in Green Day or whatever, and you actually have to learn about music you don't care for, too. I mean, I cared for a great deal of music; it's just that I didn't want to submerge myself into the well of fusion jazz. — Brendon Small

My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five. — Madi Diaz

Dreaming is what you do when your eyes are closed ... living is what you do with that dream once you open your eyes! — Nathan Parks

I was pretty lucky to get into Berklee at all. I never really had any theory or music-reading capabilities; I was completely by ear. — Madi Diaz

The horse and the cow, the rabbit and the cat, the deer and the hare, the pheasant and the lark, please us better as friends than as meat. — Elisee Reclus

The role of Premier is not one that should be taken lightly, nor is it a personal trophy. — Lara Giddings

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Out of Berklee Dream Theater was born and we've been together ever since. I didn't have to taste that feeling of defeat. — John Petrucci

Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered. — Aldous Huxley