Band Quote by Alana Haim

We got our first significant pieces of press in the 'New York Rocker' from early gigs at CBGB.

— Lee Ranaldo

I was with a group called the Nappy Headz. We had a song called Robbery it was like a redo of Khias My Neck,…

— T-Pain

Usually my records are made trying to capture the essence of a band playing in a room.

— Lee Ranaldo

I remember when our first album came out. After one of our gigs, we went across the border to Mexico and the band in…

— Dusty Hill

It was sort of in the jam-band era and it was at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester [New York], right where I grew…

— Nick Kroll

My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.

— Questlove

My first professional gig was 'Once Upon a Mattress' at the Drury Lane Oakbrook... I was in the ensemble. I was one of the…

— Jessie Mueller

I remember starting out and covering songs.

— Bebe Rexha

I saw my first gig here actually (Festival Hall in Brisbane) Duran Duran.

— Bernard Fanning

The stereotypical rock-star-trashing-a-hotel-room thing? Those days had passed by the time I was in a band big enough to do it.

— Phil Collins

First concert I saw was a British boy band called Take That when I was 14 or 15. I went with nine girls from school.

— James Corden

We once played Strathclyde University's student union where they had a crash barrier in front of the stage. I thought that was a little…

— Sam Lloyd