A Quote by Gregg Allman
I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music.
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I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid.
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I had teachers in high school to point me in the direction of the University of Indiana School of Music, and after IU, I went on to study at the Academy of Arts in Philadelphia. I graduated in 2006.
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I graduated high school early, and I moved to New York before I even knew I was going to college or anything.
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If you rent, that's it. You don't have to pay any interest to anybody. You don't have to pay any maintenance costs to anybody. You don't have to worry about whether the boiler is going to break down. While if you own your own home, you have a hundred aggravations.
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