Goals Quote by Melissa Morgan

When I started playing music it was around Austin and the Hill Country area in Texas and there were always campfires and picking circles…

— Ryan Bingham

I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.

— Gary Burton

I was in several bands, and we just started off doing the clubs and dancehalls in the valleys - and eventually moved on to…

— Shakin' Stevens

The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock…

— Randy Bachman

I started bands at a pretty young age and played with my friends back in Detroit. I've always known that I wanted to do…

— Alex Winston

I grew up playing in an alley on the south side of Milwaukee.

— Jane Kaczmarek

I want to work on reaching out to people, through my music, at the grass-roots level.

— Ananya Birla

If I were to give advice to someone that just started a band and how to get someone's attention, you've gotta have a central…

— Tyler Joseph

I went to college in Iowa for a little bit and tried to get some bands together there. That was about a year of…

— Dave Keuning

When I talk about music in Memphis, it's a place you can go if you are a beginning artist or anywhere in your career,…

— Valerie June

I did my last year of high school as an exchange student. I lived south of the Atlanta, in a quite strange place -…

— Anna Ternheim

I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.…

— Naomi Scott