Bands Quote by Cheech Marin

We really hated being in a band. The joy for us and why we slipped nicely and neatly into it was because we didn't…

— Curt Smith

One springs to mind: one of our very first gigs in a small East Texas town was not well promoted. At least, that was…

— Billy Gibbons

Two weeks later, we played our first concert and had 100 people there. It was pretty cool.

— Will Champion

I just remember standing there, singing with the headphones on and the strings playing, just how wonderful that felt. But we so rarely got…

— Ricky Skaggs

You hear about bands who say, "We did one show where only 20 people showed up", well that was our average gig for five years.

— Dexter Holland

We were a really crazy band. This was in '73. I had my hair real short with a white stripe down the middle of…

— Rex Smith

I have to say, our kind of music was always a struggle live. Quiet vocals and really loud drums and guitars, it was quite…

— Miki Berenyi

It took us two years to get our first real gig. That was a big dream. We ended up booking a lot of our…

— Greg Ginn

My first concert was Pantera.

— John Gourley

My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.

— Questlove

I saw how hard it was for even really talented bands to reach an audience.

— Tom Anderson

We worked as a team... I was one of the band.

— Jonathan King