Band Quote by Page Hamilton

I was in a lot of bands growing up.

— Jesse Andrews

I was in bands all through my youth. Things started out more acoustic and then piano ballads. Then R&B followed by sappy pop music…

— Lights

For me, growing up in New York, it started with Elvis Costello and the Clash and then got into louder things like Bad Brains…

— Mike D

I'm a street player, and all of my influences come from bands that I was listening to at the time when I was growing…

— Joey Kramer

There are bands that I got into when I was 15, when I was mad at my dad and just wanted to be different.…

— Pete Wentz

I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for me, I bought their main…

— Flume

I've always been an outsider kid. But I had always wanted to be in a group - growing up, I loved bands like the…

— Dawn Angelique

By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was so dark…

— Michael Stipe

I was in bands, like everyone else, when I was 16, 17; I was a little skater listening to Dead Kennedy's and Steel Pole…

— Bonobo

When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and…

— Daniel Johns

I grew up playing in rock bands while I was listening to rap records. I like a lot of stuff.

— Ricky Reed

I had a brother six years older than me, so I wasn't just listening to teenybopper stuff. My brother had the cooler music, but…

— Jill Sobule