Age Quote by Benji Madden

When we first started playing shows, we were all 17. Everybody started somewhere. There were guys throwing shows in condemned houses and backyards just…

— Sonny Sandoval

When your 18th, 19, 20 years old like we were at that time, its just like anyone else, you look at like Silverchair and…

— Butch Walker

When we were 15, my brother and I were getting really into Nirvana, Green Day, and The Beastie Boys. We started going to shows…

— Joel Madden

I was in bands, like everyone else, when I was 16, 17; I was a little skater listening to Dead Kennedy's and Steel Pole…

— Bonobo

When I was 16, I really decided that music was something I wanted to do.

— Frankie Cosmos

Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own…

— Sam Phillips

At sixteen I was like: "I need to get an album out now!" - even though I was only sixteen. I was always in…

— Brooke Fraser

I didn't feel particularly cool when I was 16 or 17 but I felt accepted in a community of alternative music and the gig scene.

— Matty Healy

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

I think when I started my first album, I was 17 or 18, so I guess I was basically a child.

— Nina Nesbitt

You never know that this is the moment when you're in the moment. When I was sixteen I moved to a smaller town in…

— Stuart Hamm

Growing up I played in garage bands and cover bands with my older brother, and he got us a gig opening up for some…

— Charles Kelley