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“Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.”

Wells School House Party Rocks College Band High School Touring Rock Bands Togas

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“I'm too young to have experienced firsthand the '70s rock, but when I was in high school, me and my friends were super into Neil Young. That was the grunge era, and he was considered cool again”

School Young Rocks High School My Friends Eras Grunge

Author:Bryan Lee O'Malley

“I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.”

Enough School Causes Rocks College Smart High School Weekend Punk Truck Punk Rock Resigned

Author:Dave Grohl

“I love dancing, but I'm not that good of a singer. I sang in punk rock bands in high school and college and stuff, but that mostly involved lots of screaming.”

School Stuff Rocks College Involved Band High School Dancing Singers Punk Punk Rock Rock Bands

Author:Brian Dietzen

“I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference." (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)”

“I wanted to be a broadcaster, sportscaster, or gameshow host from a very early age. I did my first broadcasting when I was 10 or 11 - into a tape recorder for my brother's football game, and for local events. A local radio station was experimenting with high school disc jockeys for rock and roll shifts - I applied - and got the job.”

“Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.”

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Author:Tyler Hilton

“In high school I was good at math and everybody wanted me to do something with that - mathematics or engineering - which was a nightmare scenario for me. Meeting other artists and going to punk rock shows at that age, there was a feeling of freedom and community that I wanted to partake in.”

Shows Feelings Age Wanted School Artist Community Rocks High School Mathematics Meetings Math Nightmare Punk Engineering Scenarios Punk Rock

Author:Laura Owens

“Luckily for me, when I was growing up in high school, I had a band, and I was a singer in the band. I'm less of a legit Broadway singer than I am a pop-rock singer.”

School Growing Up Growing Rocks Band High School Pops Singers Broadway Legit

Author:Stark Sands

“I was teaching drum lessons at a few high schools - everything from marching to classical to rock and jazz. I found that really rewarding, having to explain my thought process, having to think about stuff that I take for granted or as second nature.”

Thinking School Found Stuff Process Teaching Rocks Lessons High School Jazz Granted My Thoughts Thought Process

Author:Glenn Kotche

“My mom is very proud of introducing music to all her kids. But I played in some bad rock bands my junior and senior years of high school.”

Years Kids School Rocks Mom Proud Band High School My Mom Introducing Senior Juniors Rock Bands Senior Year

Author:Miles Teller

“I have always loved rock music. But I have played country music since my senior year in high school. That's where my heart is. I try to keep up with the rock world as much as I can.”

World Trying Years Heart I Can Country School Rocks My Heart High School Senior Rock Music Senior Year

Author:Tracy Byrd

“I know what you're thinking: why is Chris Rock bagging groceries? But I dropped out of high school in the tenth grade, so if I couldn't tell jokes this is exactly what I'd be doing.”

Ifs Thinking Knows School Rocks Jokes High School Grades Groceries

Author:Chris Rock

“As a child there was no place for adventure or experimentation. I guess that kind of freedom started in high school with punk rock. That's what enlightened me to not being afraid to express myself.”

Kind Children School Rocks Adventure High School Enlightened Punk Being Afraid Experimentation Punk Rock

Author:Mark McNairy

“I still remember discovering the classic rock station when I was in high school and being totally blown away by it.”

Stills School Remember Rocks High School Classic Stations Discovering Blown Away Classic Rock

Author:Stephanie D'Abruzzo

“I graduated high school in 1989, and there was no alternative rock radio, and there wasn't really good college radio you could get on a car stereo. Once you get a car at that age, you're spending all the time you can away from home, sometimes just driving around aimlessly. Listening, or not even listening, but subconsciously soaking up this classic rock barrage.”

Sometimes Home Age School Rocks Car College Listening High School Radio Spending Driving Alternatives Classic Away From Home Soaking Classic Rock Good College Alternative Rock

Author:Craig Finn

“In high school I was in a band called Goodfight, but it was more me running around on stage. It was very punk inspired. Then I started to get into indie-rock and older music and decided I wanted to write my own stuff. I quit the band. Around 16 or 17, I started recording myself at home on keyboard and piano.”

Writing Home Running Wanted School Stuff My Own Rocks Stage Band High School Decided Inspired Quitting Piano Punk Keyboards I Quit Indie Rock

Author:Angel Olsen

“My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.”

Play Dream School Guy Rocks Mom Band High School My Mom Rock And Roll Passed Away Playing Drums My Mom Passed Away Mom Passed Away

Author:Travis Barker

“In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.”

Wanted School Stars Rocks Band High School Rock Star

Author:Adam Sandler

“Yeah. When you want what's real and you try to find that in high school, you might as well be looking for a mossy rock beside a babbling brook on the corner of Sixth and Pine in downtown Seattle.”

Want Trying Wells Real Might School Rocks High School Yeah Corners Brooks Seattle Downtown Babbling

Book:The Fortunes of Indigo Skye

Source: The Fortunes of Indigo Skye

“Answers to Frequently Asked Questions: Yes. Yes. No. One time in high school. Three times in my twenties. Rocks no salt. Yes. Four. Never. And how dare you! I will take no further questions.”

School Three Answers Four Rocks High School Twenties Dare One Time Salt Three Times

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it’s been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.”

Country School Used Stuff Rocks High School Photograph Folks Punk Back When Punk Rock Venues Soulful

Author:Garrett Hedlund