Band Quote by Anonymous

I did three club tours before I started playing concert halls, and the clubs were half full the first time around.

— John Prine

I was in one bar band from 1965 to '69, then I was in another one from 1970 to '79 - a 9-year bar band!

— Eric Carr

I was in a lot of bands growing up.

— Jesse Andrews

We started out as a bar band. We were sometimes playing in front of 20 people.

— Jay DeMarcus

I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.

— Van Morrison

I was playing in bands before high school even. My first band I was in at 14. And we were playing just Beatles.

— Dan Fogelberg

Growing up in the Northwest, I did play in an all-girl band. I snuck into clubs. No one ever questioned or thought twice about…

— Meredith Brooks

Then we did what we called basically I suppose a club tour in England, which was the time I think that our second album…

— John Deacon

For 10 years, I had a band called Steel Train. We made three albums. We toured like crazy.

— Jack Antonoff

I was in the band for the first six albums.

— Steve Porcaro

I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

— Ikue Mori

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

— Alessandro Nivola