Band Quote by Billie Holiday

I did as many little charity gigs as I could.

— Raye

I've worked with a number of big bands, but there's nothing in life like the Basie band.

— Kurt Elling

I got everything I wanted. When I was young in Kansas City, I knew nothing about Frank Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, of all…

— Count Basie

I used to travel around with bands and sell their merchandise on tour. I wasn't really chasing my dream. I was just trying to…

— Khalil Rountree Jr

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band…

— Alan Greenspan

I used to make my grandparents pay a dollar to watch me sing 'Grease' songs and 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' in their living room.…

— Zoe Kravitz

I left my apartment in London and I sold everything. I literally had $1000 and a suitcase when I got on the plane. The…

— Jane Leeves

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

— Mary Lou Jepsen

Well, I was in a band. I was the singer with a band called the Soul Satisfiers. I sang then quite a bit of…

— Gloria Gaynor

At fourteen or fifteen, I decided to earn my living when I grew up playing drums made from wooden beer kegs and leading a…

— Marlon Brando

I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice…

— Robert Quine

My big journey was around money. I was a successful writer, I was a musician, but I was just always broke.

— Jen Sincero