Band Quote by Jon Gordon

I was living in New York. Sometimes, our gang of musicians would go to Louis Armstrong's home and play records. It was a lesson,…

— Jimmy Scott

My dad was all about music. He was a musician, leading a band when I was born. His band was active all through the…

— Chick Corea

A music teacher. It was in the inner city at a school called Horace Mann. I think I was most effective when the kids…

— Craig Robinson

My dad was a teacher. He has a Masters in music. He taught elementary school, and he played gigs his whole life, and we…

— Dawn Richard

I had a really nice association with Richie DeRosa, a great musician, a great drummer and composer and arranger. And I had a number…

— Jon Gordon

When I came to New York, to Brooklyn, I met Alvin Ailey and Stanley Crouch and August Wilson. They were always putting things in…

— Wynton Marsalis

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

My mother, who is a Carnatic musician, started a school for children when I was around three, and I grew up listening to her…

— Sid Sriram

He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He…

— Ben E. King

I had three influential teachers. The first was Uta Hagen. The second two, Bobby Lewis and my late husband, Charles Kakatsakis, were both from…

— June Squibb

My father shared the ethos of many of the beat writers and was a friend of Allen Ginsberg. Probably for 25 years of my…

— Anne Waldman

Berklee played a huge role in shaping my music. On an academic level, I learned a lot about vocal technique and culture. Since my…

— Sid Sriram