Chance Quote by Bear McCreary

I met the pianist Barry Harris when I was about fifteen. He would show me changes, which I had no idea existed. I knew…

— Charles McPherson

I was 16 when I got a scholarship to study classical composition at a conservatory. By that time I had already listened to Scottish…

— Jack Bruce

I didn't really want to write just lyrics, but I wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein. Music was always the first reason I was writing…

— Stephen Sondheim

When I was 12 years old and first decided I wanted to be a songwriter, the people that I always looked up to were…

— Eric Carmen

I worked as an artist, played in a band, met Andy Warhol, Christo, Lou Reed, and David Byrne. I had fun.

— Mary Lou Jepsen

By the time I was 17, I was in a band, writing songs and playing solo piano at weekends, in pubs or at weddings.

— Chesney Hawkes

When my father was, you know, a very big artist in the 1970s and then later up through the '80s. And then I began…

— John Carter Cash

My father shared the ethos of many of the beat writers and was a friend of Allen Ginsberg. Probably for 25 years of my…

— Anne Waldman

If anything, when I was young, I wanted to be an orchestra.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

Leonard Bernstein was probably the most significant formative influence on me - he was such an encompassing musician. I spent my teenage years absorbing…

— Jason Robert Brown

I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.

— Ivor Novello

My whole childhood was filled with classical music and going to concerts of the New York Philharmonic and other New York ensembles and organizations,…

— Gunther Schuller