Education Quote by Jon Secada

Nostalgia can be a brand, but Jon Secada uses it here as a map of how creative careers actually get built: less through lone genius, more through proximity, repetition, and trust. He’s talking about a university, yet the emphasis isn’t on classrooms or credentials. It’s on people, on the unglamorous infrastructure of relationships that turns talent into work.

The phrasing does quiet double duty. “Not only where I learned” nods to formal training without letting it take center stage; the real payload arrives in “the people that I met there.” Secada frames education as a social ecosystem, a place that incubates collaborators, mentors, and future bandmates. That matters coming from a musician whose success depends on chemistry, not just skill. In pop music especially, the difference between a gig and a career is often a reliable network: someone who answers the call, vouches for you, shows up prepared.

There’s also a subtle argument about legitimacy. Saying “most of the people that I work with” have been “associated with the university” signals a professional pipeline: the school isn’t just a memory, it’s an ongoing credentialing system and a shared language. “Guys” reads casual, even affectionate, softening what is essentially a statement about insider circles. The subtext isn’t cynical, but it is realistic: community reproduces opportunity. Secada’s intent feels like gratitude, yet it also reveals how institutions quietly shape culture by wiring together the people who end up making it.