Europe Quote by Jon Gordon

I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll…

— Ronnie Milsap

I didn't decide to become a musician until the age of 15, which is quite late.

— Evelyn Glennie

I started playing music around 13 or 14, played jazz in high school, and played other stuff in college. After college, I tried to…

— Jesse Andrews

You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play…

— Sonny Rollins

I spent most of my 20s playing music. I was in a band, and we worked really hard and did not get very far.

— Fred Armisen

I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen…

— Gary Carr

I did listen to 1920s jazz or Al Johnson and a lot of early singers coming out of England. I would branch out a…

— Ed Speleers

The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a risk, and I…

— Manfred Mann

And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.

— Travis Barker

I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.

— Van Morrison

There's been this perception that Europeans still hold on to, that they discover the real talented ones in American culture and give them proper…

— Andrew Bird

I started playing when I was 5. I'm from a family of musicians.

— Luka Sulic