Band Quote by Rick James

I think we got started like all bands. We wanted to make some noise, hang out, and have some fun. Remember, we're from Buffalo…

— John Rzeznik

We're doing everything we can to help bands from Buffalo.

— John Rzeznik

Buffalo Springfield had three guitar players, and we thought they were so cool. So we started doing the three-guitar thing, and people started calling…

— Gary Rossington

My father was a steelworker who'd come over from Abruzzi, in Italy. He played in the band and he encouraged me to be a…

— Henry Mancini

We came from a small town where there was no music scene or no other bands, and we decided to put ours together and…

— Ed Kowalczyk

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

We came out of a very provincial city that was not very supportive of music, and we had to do our own thing and…

— Mike McCready

The reason I formed my own band in the first place is so that I could step up as the singer.

— Ben Jackson

I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music.

— Glenn Frey

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

— Jack Antonoff

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

In Cleveland, music was always a big part of my life. That's really where I cut my teeth.

— Mark Foster