Tips On Starting A Career In Music? Go to school for Music or Try to break in?

You have many fine music school in your area - but after taking voice and piano lessons ( and they had better be from degreed, experienced teachers, NOT the stoner at the local music store!) can you get INTO Hartt, UConn, WestConn, New Haven, or any of the other places around you? And then there are places like Five Towns on the Island - more geared to pop music. It is easy to look down your nose at places that you cannot get into! From your post, had you NOT given, your age, it is easy to infer your age; you have all the zeal and hubris of that age. So - "brink of fame", "break into the music business", "WHATEVER it take" - these are all completely empty phrases. If you were already any good at all, you would have management, and be working. If you think you can get good with EDUCATION - then work towards that. You do realize that you might think that YOU are "one in a million" - but in reality, you are 1 OF a million. I taught music in a district not far from you, before moving to NY - you have every opportunity near you - if you get GOOD ENOUGH to be accepted into those schools. Good luck.