“I started playing guitar when I was 12 and probably from that age knew that I wanted to make music and make my own music. Playing with other bands like the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens was more like an apprenticeship for me than anything.” AgeWantedMy OwnBandGuitarPlaying GuitarApprenticeship Author:St. Vincent
“As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail. Like a generous host, she offers her brimming cups in endless variety, served in a grand hall, the sky its ceiling, the mountains its walls, decorated with glorious paintings and enlivened with bands of music ever playing.” AgeFailingSkyPaintingSourceWallOffersBandMountainEndlessCupsVarietyGenerousEnjoymentGloriousHallsHostCeilings Book:The American Wilderness: In the Words of John Muir Source: The American Wilderness: In the Words of John Muir
“When I get 13 or 14 years old, I get crazy with rock music, like, like, deeply crazy. And one of my favorite bands at that moment was, for example, like - bands like Metallica or Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and Santana, you know? And then I start to play metal, actually, when I was - at the age of 15.” KnowsYearsPlayMomentsAgeBlackCrazyRocksExampleBandMy FavoriteThat MomentMetalsNow And ThenRock MusicSabbathZeppelinsMetallicaBlack SabbathFavorite BandsSantana Author:Juanes
“From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.” PlayAgeSchoolFourBandBalletChoirSchool PlaysSchool Band Author:Gugu Mbatha-Raw
“My vision of punk rock was these dudes who were spitting on the audience and moshing. That's why I kind of left that scene. Then I see all these people around my same age or between 17 and 25 that were making music themselves in their own town. They weren't just singing, but creating. I see them putting out this music where there are tons of women involved in the scene and involved in the bands.” PeopleKindAgeLeftVisionAudienceRocksInvolvedSceneBandCreatingSingingTownsPunkPunk Rock Author:Kathleen Hanna
“With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters.” ThinkingBigsAgeFormBandDegreesPopsStrictConformPop MusicFormatParametersDownloads Author:David Byrne
“I came to New York for the first time with Peter Buck at age 19. We spent a week living out of a van on the street in front of a club in the West 60s called Hurrah. It's where Pylon played. I saw Klaus Nomi play there. And Michael Gira's band before he did Swans-they all wore cowboy boots and were so cool and had great hair. I was so jealous.” FirstsPlayAgeSawsWeekStreetsFrontsNew YorkHairBandFirst TimeWestClubsJealousBootsPeterCowboyVansBucksSwansCowboy BootGreat Hair Author:Michael Stipe
“I wanted to reexamine the idea of the album for generations of people who are not my age, who love music or learning about music or are finding this band called R.E.M. or have just previously heard "Losing My Religion" and "Everybody Hurts" as their elevator music. I wanted to present an idea of what an album could be in the age of YouTube and the Internet.” PeopleIdeasAgeWantedHurtGenerationsHeardInternetBandFindingsLosingAlbumsYoutubeMusic LoveElevators Author:Christopher Bollen
“From the age of 1 to 6 there is a small percentage that is exclusively homosexual, a small percentage heterosexual and there's a wide band in the middle of people who respond to various stimuli. A little bit here, a little more there.” PeopleLittlesAgeBitsMiddleBandLittle BitVariousWideHomosexualPercentagesStimulus Author:Gore Vidal
“I have a personal Twitter for band purposes, but I don't use social media a lot. I fall in a weird age gap. I was on band message boards when I was 16, but I was on the early curve of Facebook. I did it for work when I worked in media, and I did it for the band, but I can't relate to the idea that you live your life online.” I CanIdeasUseAgePurposeFallSocialMediaBandMessagesSocial MediaRelateBoardsOnlineGapsLive Your LifeCurvesAge Gap Author:Lauren Mayberry
“When I was a kid, a lot of my parents' friends were in the music business. In the late '60s and early '70s - all the way through the '70s, actually - a lot of the bands that were around had kids at a very young age. So they were all working on that concept way early on. And I figured if they can do it, I could do it, too.” IfsWayKidsAgeYoungParentCan DoBandLateConceptsYoung AgeMusic Business Author:Slash
“Benny Goodman's band was integrated before baseball. Even before it was physically integrated, music was integrated. Everyone listened to Armstrong and Ellington. The 20s was called the Jazz Age. It's part of being American.” AgeBandBaseballJazzIntegratedArmstrongGoodmanJazz Age Author:Wynton Marsalis
“From a very young age I had an ambition to be a musician, and to do that professionally. That's what I pursued until I was about 20, playing in bands that were taken pretty seriously at that stage.” AgeYoungTakenStageBandAmbitionMusicianYoung AgePursued Author:Cillian Murphy
“Misogyny comes naturally to a young man in his late teens; it is a function of the powerful homosocial impulses that flower along Fraternity Row, that drove the mod movements of the middle sixties and late seventies, that lie at the heart of every rock band formed by men of that age.” MenHeartAgeYoungLyingPowerfulMiddleRocksMovementFlowerBandLateFunctionImpulseYoung ManTeensSixtyMisogynySeventiesFraternityRock BandsMods Author:Michael Chabon
“Why do you have to retire at 65? Why can't you start at 70? You know, like wine. Why can't music be that way? My new band, we're playing stuff that's never been done before.” KnowsWayDoneAgeStuffBandMusic IsWineOld AgeRetiring Author:Herbie Mann
“I started playing guitar at the age of 8 or 9 years. Very early, and I was like already into pop music and was just trying to copy what I heard on the radio. And at a very early age I started experimenting with old tape recorders from my parents. I was 11 or 12 at that time and then when I was like 14 or 15 I had a punk band. I made all the classic rock musician's evolutions and then in the early nineties I bought my first sampler and that is how I got into electronic music, because I was able to produce it on my own. That was quite a relief.” TryingYearsFirstsMadeAgeAbleParentMy OwnHeardRocksProduceEvolutionBandMusicianMusic IsGuitarRadioPopsClassicReliefCopiesPunkTapePop MusicRock MusicElectronic MusicRecordersPlaying GuitarClassic RockRock Musicians Author:Christian Fennesz
“I started piano lessons at age six but didn't take music seriously until I was a teenager, when I thought about a career in music. I studied classical music, and my instruments were guitar and piano. I played keyboards in bands, and after high school I went to Vienna to study at the Academy of Music. I also became a session player, which culminated in my work with Tangerine Dream.” DreamAgeSchoolCareersStudyPlayerLessonsBandSixHigh SchoolInstrumentsGuitarTeenagerPianoSessionClassical MusicAcademyKeyboardsViennaPiano LessonAfter High SchoolLife After High SchoolTangerines Author:Paul Haslinger
“I've never been a fan of bands that go out and celebrate their age, I'd rather be celebrated for being relevant.” AgeFansBandCelebrateRelevant Author:Jacob Bannon
“Leading a band and producing yourself and picking cool tunes and putting a show together takes a lot of thought, and a certain amount of courage. In my early twenties, if I wasn't getting good enough at it, then people would not come and see me. Anybody who has lasted this long - I hope we get better with age.” PeopleIfsLongEnoughShowsAgeTogetherCertainAmountBandTwentiesGet BetterTunesGood Enough Author:Bonnie Raitt
“I certainly know guys in comedy, I know some actors, and I definitely know some musicians, who have survived to a certain age and make a good living doing what they do, but nobody knows who they are. They wake up every day and they have the ability to get paid practicing their art, but underneath it all, if you scratched the surface, you still get, "If I only had my own show . . .," or "If I only had my own band . . ." It's what people always do when they want to be their own star.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantArtStillsShowsAgeGuyCertainActorsStarsMy OwnAbilityComedyBandMusicianWake UpPaidSurfaceSurvivedNobody KnowsGood Living Author:Denis Leary
“Once I got to an age where I was old enough to make my own decisions, I quit everything and did what I actually wanted to do, which was start a band.” EnoughAgeWantedMy OwnDecisionBandQuittingI Quit Author:Taylor Momsen
“From the age of 16 on, I brought my guitar everywhere. I just fell in love with learning the guitar, and I wanted to learn songs and chords, and that led to wanting to start a band, and to wanting to do our first show.” FirstsShowsAgeWantedSongBandGuitarChords Author:Donavon Frankenreiter