After Quote by Joe Mande

I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.

— R. Kelly

The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.

— Daryl Hall

I was involved with my theater program in high school, and I was involved in a festival where I could audition for a lot…

— Josh Dallas

I did musical theatre for about four years. One time, I did six shows in one year whilst juggling school.

— Sam Smith

My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But…

— Tom Lehrer

I got into music via the competitions; the first time I ever performed was in a kind of rap battle, competing for money.

— Doc Brown

I made, like, five records as Dirty Projectors before I got out of college. And then I put a band together when I got…

— David Longstreth

I was in New York for a little while, doing some really bad theater. I did some great stuff, too, but there were Saturday…

— Silas Weir Mitchell

What happened was, my parents after Circus Boy decided to take me out of show business for two years to go back to normal…

— Micky Dolenz

My first concert ever was my freshman year of high school, at Blossom, and it was Lil Wayne and Young Money. It was wild.

— Larry Nance, Jr

One of the most humbling gigs I've ever had was I was paid by a neighbor to go get a dead bird out of…

— Walker Hayes

I did an album and they allowed me to sell it at the show. I also did a Disney cruise line gig. I always…

— Adam Jacobs