Thinking About The Future (My apologies for the esotericism.)

I am troubled by the idea of music school. One side of me makes the intuitive choice; If one devotes their life to music enough to spend all that money and time to go and learn about music at a prestigious music college, how can they fail in the music business? Then, I think about it, and I know from experience; I would much rather play music than study it. Don't get me wrong, it certainly pays to know what you're talking about, musically, but there's only so much you need as far as practical and efficient application goes. (Now, I'm not talking about something like classical musicianship, or composing, etc. where the more you know, the better you can do-what I'm thinking about is pertinent to popular music, or rock music, or something of the genre.) See, if you go to college for music, you can certainly get a job in the music business. However, in no way does this in any way guarantee success. One might go into Berklee planning to be a touring, recording musician, record a demo, and find that they're stuck teaching the recorder to boogery 3rd graders for the rest of their life. There's nothing wrong with that, if that's okay with you, but sorry. It's definitely not what I want to do with my life.
Like, look. Going to music school is in no way a ticket to success in the music business. And that's what I think people don't get. There is no "right way." Nothing works every time. You look at a guy like Steve Vai who went to Berklee and he made it? 99% Luck. Cause I've listened to random no-name Berklee guitarists, and they're good, no question about it. But does what they play sound good? Will it make them sucessful? Not neccessarily. One Berklee grad who will remain unnamed recently handed me a CD of his music, and quite frankly, it sucks.

Bluntly put, music school won't nessecarily make you sound good, nor will anything else. It can, but its a $160,000 hit or miss.
See, I would much rather play music than study it. I only need to know so much. And I think if I just devoted all of my time to playing music, to writing music, to learning whatever I want to learn as it comes instead of learning in a curriculum, I could be much more productive, and thus successful.
A school is not particularly inspiring. I feel that to get raw and creative juices, it has to be the raw and unalthered you, not the you confined by rules.
Hey, I'll do whatever I have to. To be a musician is what I want most in the world.