Band Quote by Julia Hartley-Brewer

I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

— R. Kelly

I worked selling tickets for Dodger Stadium; I delivered pizza; I did every job under the sun. It's the part that sucks as an…

— Jeremy Luke

I used to make my grandparents pay a dollar to watch me sing 'Grease' songs and 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' in their living room.…

— Zoe Kravitz

I worked as a roadie in the rock and roll business which was great fun. Very little money, very little food and the whole…

— Billy Bob Thornton

My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder at my sister's…

— Paul Dano

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 was like the roadie, I was carrying gear, checking things in at airports, making sure they had flowers backstage and interfacing with promoters…

— Annie E. Clark

I was a street performer for two years.

— Bernie Mac

I didn't know music would end up being my job, but I loved it so much I wanted to do it every day.

— Mat Kearney

Actually, I started off playing by ear and being around a bunch of musicians playing in the streets in the different parades.

— Trombone Shorty

All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.

— Chely Wright

Queens Park was amateur, so you do not get paid. You need to make a living, and for the first few years, when I…

— Andrew Robertson