Band Quote by Count Basie

I got lucky when I was a teenager when we were booking bands at university. Those gigs were the greatest two hours in my…

— Michael Rapino

Before finding music, I didn't have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

— Kendrick Lamar

I spent all of my youth wanting to be in a band.

— James Righton

I wanted to be able to play music, and then when I went out in my private life, my personal life, I didn't want…

— J. J. Cale

I wanted to be famous; I wanted to perform. Those things I really, really wanted more than anything else.

— Laverne Cox

I wanted to be part of a high-class scene of musicians. It was half-inspired because I didn't have many friends, and I was hoping…

— Lana Del Rey

The whole having records and selling records and being on TV, that was something that I didn't ever think would be for me. I…

— Phil Collins

One of the big things that broke the band up for me, which I've become much clearer on over the years, was that I…

— James Murphy

When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for…

— K. Flay

When I was a kid, everyone wanted to be in a band - that was the path to girls, adulation, money.

— Tom Anderson

All through my young life I wanted to sing, although nobody in my family knew it.

— Gloria Gaynor

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

— Adam Sandler