High Quote by Michael Giacchino

I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals.

— David Bowie

I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and…

— Missi Pyle

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.

— Marsha Norman

I started playing piano when I was eight, and I went on to study piano in school, so I have a background in classical…

— Julia Holter

We had musical instruments at home, so when I wasn't in school, I would sing and write all the time.

— Griff

I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep…

— Burt Bacharach

In elementary school, I was always writing little plays for my friends to be in. I was much more of a director than a…

— Lauren Ashley Carter

I started off in a high school musical.

— Claes Bang

I always was songwriting in high school, writing songs while I was supposed to be listening to the teacher.

— Kate Pierson

I went down the creative path in my teen years, and when I was in high school, in my junior year, I would perform…

— Amber Mark

Around eighth grade I decided I wanted to be a composer and that's what I went to college for. Just a few years back,…

— Joanna Newsom

I was in musicals and I was in the choir when I was younger. Before I started writing my own songs I thought I…

— Sharon Van Etten