Cat Quote by Bootsy Collins

We started out as a bar band. We were sometimes playing in front of 20 people.

— Jay DeMarcus

All the people I hung out with were musicians.

— Hunter Hayes

I was 17 years old and in my first band, and we played at the university. I was kind of a gawky, unpopular teenager…

— Sarah McLachlan

My older brother was the guitar player in the neighborhood band. My parents were the cool ones that had the basement for rehearsal. Rather…

— Jill Sobule

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

I got my group together when I was about thirteen. We had a local radio show, and then we started touring for the principal…

— Roy Orbison

At 10 years old, I was in my church band, playing in front of a couple thousand people every week.

— Bazzi

I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids.

— Katy Perry

I was definitely surrounded by music and fashion at a very, very young age.

— Harley Viera-Newton

When I was a teenager we'd hang out anywhere there was live music.

— Lucy Beaumont

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

— John Petrucci

My first gig was in Philadelphia and I played the drums for my older brothers. That same night, I also played drums for Martha…

— Ernie Isley