Bars Quote by John C. Reilly

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 trained as an actor with Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, and Harold Clurman, and those guys set a very high bar.

— Martin Landau

When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitarist like B.B. King. I was around 13…

— Wadada Leo Smith

I think the best thing I ever did was, years before I got the 'Late Night' show, when I first got out to Los…

— Conan O'Brien

My first bars were about wrestling! That was basically all I knew back then.

— Kano

I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hard-core bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were…

— Bruce Springsteen

Sammy Davis, I backed him up. I used to study him every night. I saw how great performers worked and was able to incorporate…

— Bobby Vinton

I made some nice associations. Ben Perowsky and Kevin Hays... Bill Mobley and Pete McGuinness. A lot of talented people.

— Jon Gordon

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

— Jay DeMarcus

The guys that I played with, Hollis Dixon and the Keynotes - just about all the great musicians from Muscle Shoals.We played fraternity parties…

— Donnie Fritts

Our father taught us how to play. He's also our biggest inspiration and he opened our ears to a lot of older music, like…

— Henry Garza

I was in one bar band from 1965 to '69, then I was in another one from 1970 to '79 - a 9-year bar band!

— Eric Carr