“Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.” WellsSchoolHousePartyRocksCollegeBandHigh SchoolTouringRock BandsTogas Author:Alessandro Nivola
“I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me.” KnowsWritingKindKidsSchoolCausesBrotherBandMy BrotherOutcastWriting Poetry Author:Christina Perri
“As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.” ThinkingPlayKidsSchoolLostActingMagicBandHigh SchoolGuitarPuzzlesJuniorsJunior HighHigh School Junior Author:Michael J. Fox
“I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school.” WaySchoolClassBandHigh SchoolJazzJuniorsJunior HighAfter SchoolMarching BandJazz Band Author:Chad Smith
“I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that.” MadePlaySchoolBandMusicianBlueGuitarVelvetSchooledMusic In SchoolsBlue Velvet Author:Bobby Vinton
“I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school.” SchoolBandHigh SchoolMy FavoriteJuniorsFavorites ThingsJunior HighMarching BandSchool Band Author:Tommy Lee
“I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.” SchoolSimpleTaughtGrewBandGrew UpHigh SchoolRhythmPianoChordsAunt Author:Cristin Milioti
“One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I became obsessed. He started giving me their albums in sequential order, and I listened to them - and only them - until I was probably in high school.” WorldGivingSchoolOrderHeardDadOne DayBandHigh SchoolMy DadRadioAlbumsObsessed Author:Lukas Haas
“I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad at trumpet.” SchoolBoysBandCuteTrumpetsCute Boy Author:Skylar Grey
“I just started as a part of the public school music program. I took lessons at the school every Friday and was a part of the school band. I was just a normal kid taking instrumental lessons at school, nothing special.” KidsSchoolSpecialLessonsBandNormalProgramFridayPublic SchoolSchool Band Author:Kenny G
“I like the old school heavy metal bands like AC/DC and Aeromith. I like that type of music. As the director, I tried to influence the type of music the bands in the movie would play.” PlaySchoolInfluenceTypeBandDirectorsHeavyMetalsOld SchoolHeavy MetalMetal Band Author:Dolph Lundgren
“My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy.” WorldTwoSchoolBitsCommunityBandGirlfriendBalletMy GirlfriendSaxophoneNerdyTwo SistersMarching Band Author:Jennifer Garner
“I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.” SelfSchoolTaughtCollegeBandHigh SchoolSelf TaughtConservatory Author:Tim Heidecker
“We [The Replacements] never made any money on tour. None of us came out of the school of economics. We took it for granted that a rock and roll band gets ripped off. We've tried to shake that tree a couple of times, but what can we do? You look back, when you're sort of idle in your middle years, and think, we should have made some money.” ThinkingShouldYearsLooksMadeSchoolTreeMiddleRocksCoupleBandEconomicsShould HaveGrantedShakesIdleRock And RollBack WhenRippedReplacements Author:Paul Westerberg
“As a kid, I was obsessed with the Who. They were the most important band to me. Songs like "I'm One" helped me get through high school.” ImportantKidsSchoolSongBandHigh SchoolObsessed Author:Judd Apatow
“Music's been with me from the get-go. It was always around me as a kid. Dad got me my first guitar when I was 11 and, at school, if you wanted to be cool you had to be in a band.” IfsFirstsKidsWantedSchoolDadBandGuitarBeing Cool Author:Julian Lennon
“I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.” SchoolRocksBandRock And RollJugs Author:Loudon Wainwright III
“if I hadn't gone to a private Christian school, I'd never have built up enough animosity to want to have started a band. And now that I have one, the fact that they are giving me such resistance and publicity, they have made me far bigger than they'd ever have wanted me to have become. So I guess in a strange way the Christians have influenced me the most.” IfsWayWantGivingMadeEnoughFactsWantedSchoolChristianGoneStrangeBandBuiltBiggerResistancePublicityAnimosityChristian Schools Author:Marilyn Manson
“I went to a boarding school when I was 13, and it was a very arty school, so there was an opportunity for a lot more. I joined a band and so on. We would do concerts at school, and I would play cover tunes and thought, 'This is really great.'” PlaySchoolOpportunityBandTunesConcertsReally Great Author:Teddy Thompson
“I was 16 when I came to New York. I had graduated to a tenor banjo in the school jazz band, and it was kind of boring - just chords, chords, chords. Then my father took me to a mountain music and dance festival in Asheville, North Carolina, and there I saw relatively uneducated people playing great music by ear.” PeopleKindSchoolFatherSawsNew YorkBandMountainEarsJazzBoringFestivalsChordsGreat MusicCarolinaUneducatedNorth CarolinaTenorsMusic And DanceBanjosJazz BandAsheville Author:Pete Seeger
“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.” SchoolStuffRocksCollegeInvolvedBandHigh SchoolDancingSingersPunkPunk RockRock Bands Author:Brian Dietzen
“I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.” WritingWantedSchoolPaintingBandHigh SchoolMy SisterPacifiers Author:Cyndi Lauper
“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