Guitar Quote by Irvine Welsh

I moved to London to work at the National Theatre and spent my first wage packet on Patti Smith, Bowie and Velvets records.

— Toyah Willcox

Pretty much everybody we know in Glasgow who's in a band has another job. All of us have worked in bars, cafes, or cinemas.…

— Lauren Mayberry

I started studying business and finance in Edinburgh as a backup plan. I was still making music many hours a day, and when I…

— Kygo

I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.

— Jonathan Demme

I wanted to be a musician and studied vocals in London for a year and then I gave it up.

— Masaba Gupta

After school, instead of going into the restaurant scene, I very consciously took my guitar around everywhere I could, to Irish pubs and restaurants,…

— Nick Gehlfuss

I've spent some time in Edinburgh before. I used to go up there to busk and actually went to the Fringe a few times…

— Grace Chatto

Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a…

— George Benson

I was like the roadie, I was carrying gear, checking things in at airports, making sure they had flowers backstage and interfacing with promoters…

— Annie E. Clark

I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We…

— Gerard Butler

At fourteen or fifteen, I decided to earn my living when I grew up playing drums made from wooden beer kegs and leading a…

— Marlon Brando

I moved to London in 2011. I was working as a teaching assistant in the day and was doing stand-up gigs in the night.

— Lucy Beaumont