Band Quote by Ben Gibbard

I never felt bad about being lumped in with other Seattle bands. I thought it was great.

— Chris Cornell

One of the first bands to break out of Seattle was Heart.

— Layne Staley

When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave…

— Oscar Isaac

I needed to get out of Seattle. I had to just come into my own world, my own zone, and really appreciate me and…

— Leah LaBelle

I listened to all types of music, and obviously when I got to Seattle I was very much aware of the music scene there.

— Randy Johnson

I wanted to be as far away from everybody as I could be. I found it difficult to be close to anybody, not just…

— Rick Allen

The story of our band is that we were this relentless touring band in those early years. We were leaving day jobs and going…

— Ben Gibbard

The band I was in, Soul Survivor, moved to Los Angeles in 1964 and tried real hard for two years.

— Randy Meisner

In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This…

— Henry Rollins

I miss Seattle a lot. It was my first city that I lived in on my own. It was a great city to play…

— Kevin Durant

We came from a small town where there was no music scene or no other bands, and we decided to put ours together and…

— Ed Kowalczyk

Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and…

— Johnny Thunders