Band Quote by Amanda Shires

I was in a band called Hooker for a while.

— Travis Barker

Cowboys had guitars. And they sang country 'cause they lived in the country.

— Robbie Robertson

With the Gap Band coming from Oklahoma, other artists would tease us by calling us cowboys. We didn't grow up on a ranch, but…

— Charlie Wilson

Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.

— George Strait

I remember sitting at home in West Texas listening to my 'Songs for a New World' CD over and over.

— Michael Arden

The records in the house I really remember were, well, Glen Campbell's 'Wichita Lineman' and 'Galveston.' Even as a kid, I knew these songs…

— Keith Urban

I used sit in the back of the truck and make up these songs and play at the tailgates at rodeos.

— Ryan Bingham

I was in a vintage pub rock band called Clover in the 1970s.

— Huey Lewis

Maybe out of the fifty top Beach Boys songs, I was probably the co-writer and singing lead on forty of them.

— Mike Love

For about three years I was playing clubs and theatres, I had a band, and I made a recording a few years ago, called…

— Laura Nyro

Don't forget, Stephen Stills and I had a band in Gainesville called the Continentals when we were 15. And, of course, you had Lynyrd…

— Don Felder

At 14, I was in my own little classic rock country band. Then, after high school, I started another band called Northern Comfort. That…

— Jon Pardi