A well-structured academic environment is vital for effective learning, with students' attitudes towards instructional material playing a crucial role. However, when students lack motivation or interest, achieving desired learning outcomes becomes challenging. This study investigates the musical interests and attitudes of pre-service music teachers towards the music teaching profession, considering various variables. Data were obtained from 356 pre-service music teachers in the 2021-2022 academic year. According to the results obtained, significant differences were observed in the pre-service music teachers' musical interest scores based on gender, grade, longest-lived place of residence, and concert-going frequency. Furthermore, attitude scores significantly differed according to the grade variable. A weak positive correlation was found between pre-service music teachers' musical interest and attitude scores, indicating a relationship of 0.385 between predictor variables and the predicted variables. Additionally, students' interpretation and education, vocalization and discovery, and integration of music-art branches scores accounted for 14.9% of the variance in attitude scores towards the music teaching profession.