Coffee Quote by Natalie Prass

I started writing songs for youth theater and stuff, and so it's really writing music for the stage that started me out, but then…

— Tim Minchin

When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I…

— Kaskade

College didn't stick, so I worked odd jobs, but I've always written songs and played music. I actually met a guy who was a…

— Chris Stapleton

For those two years in college I was constantly singing and writing and playing in coffee houses and stuff.

— Dan Fogelberg

I write music. I'm in a band.

— Jamie Campbell Bower

I knew I wanted to be in music ,but I didn't know my role, so I did everything from interning at Rolling Stone to…

— Mark Ronson

I spent my life working before I started band. I worked construction, landscaping. I worked in kitchens, cleaned dishes. I worked demolition.

— Zachary Cole Smith

In the past, I played in bands, worked at coffee shops, babysat, and worked as a production assistant.

— Tig Notaro

I started writing songs in high school. And eventually, I got some songs recorded by some major artists, mostly because I was out there…

— Gordon Lightfoot

I grew up writing songs and producing music, and I studied music production in college.

— Maggie Rogers

I'm used to being in a band and collaborating.

— Shavo Odadjian

In high school I was in a band called Goodfight, but it was more me running around on stage. It was very punk inspired.…

— Angel Olsen