Bands Quote by Wayne Kramer

I was growing up at a time when music was growing and changing so fast. I had learned all the big band sounds of…

— Jose Feliciano

We started off as a garage band who played a lot of rock 'n' roll.

— Steve Porcaro

I just sort of grew up with music always in the background like a soundtrack. And it really hit me hard when The Beatles…

— Paul Rodgers

Our father taught us how to play. He's also our biggest inspiration and he opened our ears to a lot of older music, like…

— Henry Garza

The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from…

— Kevin Ayers

We came along at a time when people were really focused on music. We were part of the second generation of bands after all…

— Dennis DeYoung

I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American country music and rock n' roll made…

— Teddy Thompson

Beginning in the sixties, but getting strong during the seventies and eighties, everybody was sort of Miles Davis and Chick Corea and the jazz…

— Gilberto Gil

I grew up around music. My father was a professional musician. We used to have a trailer house that we travelled in. I've always…

— Timothy B. Schmit

When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way. Everybody in…

— Roy Wood

In the beginning, we were a real good, straight rock 'n' roll band. We were writing quality tunes.

— Eric Carmen

I grew up in Nazareth, Penn., which was an hour and a half from New York, and an hour and a half from Philly.…

— Daughn Gibson