Band Quote by Eric Carr

I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.

— Anonymous

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

— Jay DeMarcus

I started off as a bar band. We played ZZ Top, Bob Seger, Waylon Jennings, the Rolling Stones - everything and anything people wanted…

— Frankie Ballard

I was in the band for the first six albums.

— Steve Porcaro

I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a…

— Bruce Springsteen

I was a studio engineer out in L.A. for about six or seven years, and I played sideman for different people, and played in…

— J. J. Cale

I was a student at Kent State University in May of 1970. I was also a musician in a regionally popular band called the…

— Joe Walsh

Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.

— John Hawkes

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

A lotta years I was out there on the road pulling one-nighters. Then I got hired to sing in Sam Donahue's band in 1963.…

— Frank Sinatra Jr

I've been through this fame thing before, when the band was big in '80, '81.

— John Lurie

Seven years as a band may seem like a long time, but we were teenagers when we started.

— Luke Hemmings