Henry Rollins
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES My father was an aspiring country singer and songwriter. He just didn't get that off that ground... RONNIE DUNN I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights play... TIM MCGRAW JIDENNA I like to think that if it hadn't gone as well as it has, if I wasn't able to make a living ... BRUCE COCKBURN For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a... RANDY OWEN AIMEE MANN As I was sitting there, the deejay was playing music and talking over the music, and the kids were g... SYLVIA ROBINSON JIMMY PAGE CALVIN JOHNSON MADONNA CICCONE When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I wen... K. FLAY LYNN JOHNSTON BOB NEWHART My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage w... JOHN ZORN I didn't get into the music business because somebody made me take piano lessons, you know. I go... BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN PAUL SIMON If it wasn't for Kenny Rogers, I don't think I would be in country music. He was that guy wh... DARIUS RUCKER I naively thought I had to go door to door, find somebody who could record me singing some songs. I ... DAVID NAIL I've sort of had an investigatory relationship with being a musician. I really wasn't sure w... ERIC AVERY When I started music, I started out in Puerto Rico with classical music. But what really made me wan... MIGUEL ZENON YUNA J. D. SOUTHER BEBE REXHA I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express fee... JANE CHEN YANNI I went to Dartmouth College, graduated, and had the opportunity to play two professional sports - I ... BRIAN J. WHITE AJA NAOMI KING I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I d... RAJIV OUSEPH J. K. SIMMONS When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an... MISSY ELLIOTT RICK WRIGHT I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I JOAN BAEZ Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is ess... BARRY HANNAH When I'm on tour, I'm in a new city every single night, and the energy and the crowds and th... HILARY DUFF FRENCH MONTANA MELISSA ETHERIDGE I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and rea... BRANTLEY GILBERT I play vinyl and CDs. Playing vinyl is the best sound quality you can get playing music loudly, so t... JAMIE XX NATE BERKUS I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so t... DAMIEN CHAZELLE PATRICK EWING KID ROCK DAVE GROHL AARON NEVILLE KATHLEEN EDWARDS If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if fo... LANGHORNE SLIM DARLENE LOVE When I worked as a music and fashion photographer, I always had the nagging feeling that there was s... GILES DULEY I was listening to the radio and they were playing some music in my cell. I heard a voice through th... ANDREA YATES When I was six years old, my parents told me that we were moving back home to Armenia. I didn't ... HENRIKH MKHITARYAN 'Just Can't Let You Go' is a song about passion. It's when you have such a strong pa... MANIKA EMINEM BOB SEGER SCOTT WEILAND RUSSELL CROWE STING Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go t... MIKE KRZYZEWSKI JAMES HETFIELD Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like... KEVIN DURANT TIG NOTARO When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can&... DANIEL ALARCON JUNIOR SEAU I'm really at ease in being me and going all around the world playing music. But I do get a lift... MACEO PARKER DWAYNE JOHNSON When I was around 13 years old, I started playing in bands and became obsessed with Blink-182 and Ne... CASSADEE POPE A band asked me to go on tour when I was 22 and asked me to play drums, and I taught myself so I cou... JANET WEISS PETE TOWNSHEND I was five years old, onstage singing 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' - a rock version - and... JANA KRAMER I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until... CHARLIE RICH We have tears in our eyes ROALD DAHL J. D. SOUTHER STANA KATIC BLAIR UNDERWOOD Touring with King Crimson wasn't a lot of fun for me. I had a lot of equipment, and when I was i... JAMIE MUIR LEA MICHELE Playing music is just one of the best things. I can't retire. BILL KREUTZMANN People talk about games and loneliness - it's a lonely activity. I didn't understand that. &... TIM SCHAFER FERGIE One of the most important times in my life was the first time that I remember seeing my daddy get on... RANDY HOUSER I care about being able to play. If you're playing with integrity in the music, then that's ... BILL KREUTZMANN Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology s... WYCLEF JEAN LARA ST. JOHN A producer I had worked with (David Kahne) got the gig with Paul and brought me in and then, that wa... RUSTY ANDERSON In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the... AYUMI HAMASAKI FERGIE I care about writing music and playing my music. CARLA BRUNI JOSHUA BELL HELENA BONHAM CARTER LINDA RONSTADT I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I&... J. B. SMOOVE As soon as I started writing the first batch, I had a vision. I saw me on stage playing a certain ty... BENJAMIN BOOKER MICHAEL CHANG I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldn't get batteries. I wasn't trying ... SCHOOLBOY Q While Richard was listening to music in the basement, I was out playing baseball and football, and p... KAREN CARPENTER MAGGIE STIEFVATER Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody tau... VALERIE SIMPSON BRITTANY HOWARD
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I thought I had everything going for me. I wasn't listening to nobody. And my dad was like, '... 
You know what, the drummer is my manager. He's busy. And I'm busy. I don't need the doug... 
Playing in my early bands, working as a studio musician, producing and going to art school was, in r... 
If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore. 
When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contr... 
Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't ... 
One time I happened to use the word 'denigrate' onstage, and it didn't get any reaction.... 
I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in... 
I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not... 
I didn't expect to have music as my main thing. I always thought I was going to be a lawyer. Whe... 
I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't... 
I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with produ... 
I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position... 
I've been performing since I was a child; my mother would have to pull me aside and tell me that... 
Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was s... 
For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm... 
I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to... 
Besides my son, music is the most important thing to me. I always have music on in my car and playin... 
I've worked since I was 11 years old, playing music and following the dream, and shaking and mov... 
I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't k... 
I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me an... 
I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the sa... 
I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, ... 
The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; ... 
I'm a huge fan of a lot of different genres of music, and I really felt like somehow I had been ... 
I never pushed to be a star. I didn't want to. I had my home, my family. Session work let you do... 
I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other thin... 
I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a li... 
If I was in a zombie apocalypse, I wouldn't be playing music, because that would attract zombies... 
I have a passion for music, and I enjoy the process of expressing myself within the parameters of a ... 
I think I've always had a sort of fantasy or dream that I would like to make a living playing music.... 
I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't ... 
It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was ... 
I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over ... 
I didn't have to win, and winning wasn't important to me. Being world champion wasn't im... 
When The Who first started, we were playing blues, and I dug the blues and I knew what I was suppose... 
In the '80s, I got tired of the rat race. It was a terrible time for music. I wasn't part of... 
When I was 16, I was in Boston and some friends said, 'You want to go to New York?,' I went ... 
It's a music video but she was real specific on the character that Mary J. Blige was playing, an... 
I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program i... 
I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn't working. I wasn't being myself. What ... 
I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing e... 
I wasn't trying to be a role model with 'The Dutchess,' but suddenly, seeing little girl... 
In concertos, I stand up, and I conduct with the bow when I'm not playing. During symphonies, I ... 
When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn... 
I listen mostly to live music, and mostly my musical experience was playing music with other people. 
For me, at the French Open, if I wasn't playing my match I was glued to CNN watching the events ... 
I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes m... 
I don't care what you're playing. You can be playing EDM music. Well, guess what? That came ... 
The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests... 
I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abando... 
I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us o... 