Berklee Quotes

#1. Stop stewing and start doing!

Denis Waitley

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Where I come from, you don't just say, 'Oh, I'm going to become an actor.' Talk like that and they think you're crazy.

Ellen Pompeo

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

Patti LaBelle

#7. 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

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

Madi Diaz

#9. Judgment is such a useful shield, isn't it? We can hide behind it, rise above others on its crest, keep ourselves safe and separate.

Lisa Unger

#10. Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers ...

Pat Metheny

#11. 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

#12. I hate camping, but I love summer camp.

Zooey Deschanel

#13. 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

#14. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.

Hunter S. Thompson

#15. 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