Any Quote by Skylar Grey

I'm just used to the L.A. music life.

— Kurt Vile

I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music.

— Skylar Grey

I never thought I would be recording on any professional level, so to be doing a rockabilly, Motown, pop soundtrack in a L.A. studio…

— Maia Mitchell

L.A. is a big city that has a lot of music in it but is not necessarily known for it. A lot of musicians…

— Kamasi Washington

I came to L.A. in 1970, and my desire and my training was to be a studio musician, which I had read about in…

— Harvey Mason, Jr

The first musical stuff I worked on was after the tour for 'Swing Lo Magellan' had ended and I didn't really know what else…

— David Longstreth

When I first got to L.A., I was shocked at how business was done, and how people... it's like everything I was told not…

— Missy Peregrym

Being in L.A. has definitely given me the opportunity to experience how my music sounds in real life because I can drive around and…

— Dave Sitek

I've always been making music, but I sort of went under the radar. I kind of disappeared... I was never really that comfortable with…

— Jimmy Somerville

I didn't come to L.A. thinking, okay, I'm going to be an actor, so my progression was just kind of organic, starting in print…

— Jodie Turner-Smith

I always felt like an outsider to the music world in a certain way. There was so much less of an art culture in…

— Kim Gordon

I used to ride the school bus to school and just listen to music with my headphones. I'd stick my head out the window…

— ZZ Ward