Birthday Quote by Benjamin Clementine

In the neighborhood that I grew up in - in New York on Long Island - there were a lot of musicians. For some…

— John Petrucci

At 7, I was at the barre and dancing at folk festivals. Then I was a student with the ballet school of the Metropolitan Opera.

— Maria Karnilova

Everybody played music and sang songs. It was real close, like a family. So you just got up there and had fun.

— Kings Of Leon

I did plays and movies and whatever all over the place.

— Joe Mantegna

I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off.

— George Cole

As a teen-ager I played cards, shot craps, played pool, went to the track, hung around social clubs. I knew that some card and…

— Joseph D. Pistone

I moved to New York to do a play when I was 18.

— John Gallagher, Jr

When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and…

— Lana Del Rey

Then I got a gig with an older friend who had the equipment and he played in this bar. They would bring me in…

— Jam Master Jay

I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.

— Ralph Waite

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

I was on the playground all night. I ain't never go to parties or nothing. I'd get out of school at 3 and be…

— Moses Malone