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I was in bands many years ago, so that's where it started. I played in bands, sang backing vocals and all the rest of…

— Adrian Dunbar

I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting…

— Michael Imperioli

Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.

— John Hawkes

For 10 years, I had a band called Steel Train. We made three albums. We toured like crazy.

— Jack Antonoff

I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start…

— Laura Bell Bundy

I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.

— Frank Iero

I started writing music with my cousin at, like, 16 and traveled with a '70s band.

— Verite

I was going through a period where I was just trying not to write songs and was thinking maybe I wouldn't play in a…

— Tim Rutili

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

— Van Morrison

I've been a live musician since I started my musical career.

— Santhosh Narayanan

We were all friends who formed a band. We weren't auditioned or put together by a record label, management company or TV show.

— Keren Woodward

What formed me as a musician, a songwriter, the sound and personality of my band, a whole lot of that happened well before 1991.

— Chris Cornell