Apollo Quote by Jesse Owens

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

— Bill Kreutzmann

Our main thing we'd have to entertain us: All my uncles would come over, and we'd sit around the living room on a weekend…

— Dickey Betts

I had a chance to play with the best musicians that were coming through because I was pretty good myself or else they wouldn't…

— Louis Armstrong

I was in a Led Zeppelin cover band in high school, and my highlight was playing "Misty Mountain Hop" at a coffee house in…

— Victoria Legrand

I would have loved to have been a rock n' roll star. But none of us was musical, and none of us had any…

— Ian Rankin

I'd taken, like, maybe some African dance classes a couple of times, but I wasn't a musical theater person at all.

— Chadwick Boseman

I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.

— Nastassja Kinski

I was never a sit-in-the-audience-type person. Even as a little kid, when I saw a band performing at a restaurant, I would ask them…

— Scarlett Bordeaux

Sometimes I would go on Sundays and play with Doc Cheatham. I was also playing in a band of teenagers led by Don Sickler…

— Jon Gordon

I never thought I was playing black music. I was just playing music, the stuff I liked. I sang blues at parties and things…

— Mose Allison

For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts; it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cause I was used to…

— Van Morrison

I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven…

— Teena Marie