Band Quote by Stephen Stills

I went to L.A. to be a drummer in a band.

— David Thibodeau

The band I've played with for 10 or 12 years now, we've been all over, but we mostly play in LA

— Harry Dean Stanton

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

— Skylar Grey

I went to college in Iowa for a little bit and tried to get some bands together there. That was about a year of…

— Dave Keuning

I formed my first band when I was going to Valley Torah High School in Los Angeles.

— David Draiman

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

I was a drummer living in Los Angeles in 1990. I had finished music school and was playing with a band. It wasn't going…

— David Thibodeau

I had a band with David Gates. There was just a lot of opportunity at that time. But I left for Los Angeles the…

— Leon Russell

My thing with New York was that it felt so insular. When I went to L.A., everybody I knew was a cool, amazing musician.…

— LP

I was a groupie for a year and followed a band. I dated the drummer of the band.

— Malin Akerman

We've been through the experience of being in high school and starting a band. Then we were also a garage band, while we were…

— Tony Kanal

I have a band called the Dirty Knobs that Ive had for probably 15 years now, and Ive worked with them between Heartbreakers tours,…

— Mike Campbell