Band Quote by Jeff Cardoni

I came to L.A. in 1970, and my desire and my training was to be a studio musician, which I had read about in…

— Harvey Mason, Jr

I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the…

— David Cassidy

I used to play in rock bands. Then I went to the first school of electronic music in the world. It was in Paris…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

I went to L.A. to be a drummer in a band.

— David Thibodeau

I was playing a singer-songwriter, so I started writing, and I started going up to different places around Los Angeles and reading poetry of…

— Inbar Lavi

I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA.

— Alicia Witt

I used to ride the school bus to school and just listen to music with my headphones. I'd stick my head out the window…

— ZZ Ward

I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California…

— Chad Smith

When I moved to Los Angeles, right away I met all kinds of musicians.

— Dianne Reeves

I was in bands growing up around town as a kid, like bands in the local kind of hardcore scene that we had because…

— Jesse Rutherford

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

— Janina Gavankar

My musical background is like almost every non classical musician in the world. One day a special record was heard and that was it.…

— Kevin Johnson