Being Quote by Devin Townsend

I started [performing] so young that it might have just been that I kind of had to grow up and make people understand that…

— Margaret Cho

I think the most important thing that I can offer young musicians is once you get up on the bandstand, understanding that you're now…

— Bobby Hutcherson

I was very lucky that more experienced musicians allowed me to caterwaul until I figured out what it was really about.

— Kurt Elling

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument…

— Steve Swallow

When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits…

— Kate Bush

Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood.

— Pete Townshend

There was a conflict - the actual putting together of the reality of the situation didn't seem to gel. I'd been doing kind of…

— Van Morrison

Elvis came along when I was 10. My father gave me a bass ukulele. I taught myself how to play from a book to…

— Bob Seger

Music was never an obligation for me; from a very young age, I understood it as a moment of freedom where you could express…

— Lara Fabian

That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together…

— Tom Araya

How we approached this was I wanted this to be personal in a way. It's not a big, epic Hollywood score but really personal…

— A. R. Rahman

As responsible artists, it's our duty to let the youth know the importance of devotional music.

— Shankar Mahadevan