Band Quote by Bobby McFerrin

I played the drums. I basically started off in drum line. So it was just straight percussion. Then I got into the drum set.…

— Jrue Holiday

In high school, we had a really great jazz program that I finally was able to be a part of. They only wanted instrumentalists;…

— Dianne Reeves

And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.

— Travis Barker

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

I was in band all the way through high school, and I played in jazz competitions all across Iowa.

— Joey Jordison

I started playing music around 13 or 14, played jazz in high school, and played other stuff in college. After college, I tried to…

— Jesse Andrews

My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all…

— Zach Anner

I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I took up…

— Douglas Booth

I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came…

— Damien Chazelle

I joined Elton John's band in '75. He not only allowed me to play the electronic keyboard on his albums, he also let me…

— James Newton Howard

I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting…

— Gunther Schuller

I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet.

— Drew Carey