Band Quote by Sara Watkins

I got into bluegrass music when I was 14, as a way to get into a band. My brother and I had a band…

— Keith Whitley

I went out on the road when I was 12 years old, playing with the Sullivan Family Gospel Singers. That was the summer of…

— Marty Stuart

My folks were country music performers. They made records and even did a few tours with the Grand Ole Opry. There always were a…

— Lenny Breau

Shortly after I started in bluegrass, Ricky Skaggs and I got together and the bluegrass career just snowballed. Being 15 or 16 and making…

— Keith Whitley

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

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

My dad was a musician. He was a singer and he played the guitar, so music was always around.

— Kris Allen

The first music I was interested in was Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys, and I listened to bluegrass religiously on the radio while…

— Porter Wagoner

I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.

— Van Morrison

I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios.

— Ken Hensley

My first rock band was called Mike and the Majestics. I was about twelve, and my older sister Kathy was the manager. There were…

— Michael McDonald