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My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played... JENNIFER GARNER
When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High S... FLEA JON: I played a little trumpet in high school, you know, in a marching band. I had one of those thin...
JON & RICHIE (BON JOVI)
I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite thi... TOMMY LEE
Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer. ADRIAN BELEW I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that...
CHAD SMITH I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can ...
PATTI LUPONE In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.
SAM TRAMMELL There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model Unite...
RAINN WILSON I played in a punk rock band in high school called the High Heel Flip Flops. I was the drummer. I pl...
THOMAS RHETT You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything.
NELLIE MCKAY
I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less. COLM MEANEY I actually had a movie green lit at Disney the same week 'Burlesque' was green lit - a movie...
STEVE ANTIN
I attended public school in Houston. I took piano lessons for several years, and in high school, I p... ROBERT WOODROW WILSON In high school, I stole a six-foot submarine sandwich from a banquet room in front of several hundre...
GREG VAN EEKHOUT
Most of the time I was in grammar school through high school, I was in some kind of rock n' roll... LEE ATWATER When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who ...
WAYNE KRAMER I did everything in high school - I played tennis, I played basketball, I was in chorus, I was in th...
ELIJAH KELLEY I played in the high school band. I was the one baritone saxophone out of 80 other people. No one co...
BOBBY KEYS
I mean, I think I liked every band I ever played in because each band was different, each band had a... BUDDY RICH
I started at home as a kid putting on shows and lip-syncing Michael Jackson for the grown-ups. Then,... MATISYAHU
My initial training was on the keyboard - mainly the great American songbook. In junior high, during... ANAT COHEN And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.
CAROLINE CORR I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, w...
KIM STANLEY ROBINSON And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.
CAROLINE CORR You know, in the 1970's, when I was in high school, I belonged to a band called the Happy Funk B...
COLIN MOCHRIE
As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high s... MICHAEL J. FOX
I was always too afraid to slow dance. But I do remember watching people slow dance. I was the guy o... BABYFACE
When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I wa... JASON MRAZ
The best part of the high school in Hastings must have been the Music Department. Its orchestra and ... EDMUND PHELPS This is as good as it gets. For a high school marching band, it's like going to the Super Bowl. The ...
ANDREW YARACS
I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, ... JIM BROWN I like watching
from inside, as if locked away
and stealing the distinct pleasure
...
KRISTEN HENDERSON
At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the othe... JAMES DYSON
No. Maceo played sax, didn't he, well they used to sit in. TOMMY CHONG They gave you a string instrument - I got a violin. Gave it to me. I got a private lesson a week, a ...
JOHN CARLIN One of my songs was on a jazz station for awhile. It was a song that I wrote for a jazz sax player f...
TREVOR DONOVAN
I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just c... QUINCY JONES I had a band called the Sound Of Love, and that was R&B songs about girls in my high school. I p...
MAC DEMARCO When I got here, there was a sense of futility. If the old administration had stayed on here for thr...
JON WEFALD
I was just a kid in 1987 when I heard of the Pixies, the year after I graduated high school. But I h... SCOTT WEILAND I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very short time; I...
KIESZA
I got into music, I was in a band, I was at art school. I was quite trendy, although I'd hate to... PETER CAPALDI Ours was a very progressive Protestant family, but my parents were God-loving rather than God-fearin...
JAMES NESBITT It's our senior year and will be closure for our marching band experience.
KATHERINE SMITH I've played Albuquerque before. I was there with my college band Loaded; I think we played the Launc...
DUFF MCKAGAN I played guitar and bass. I didn't do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the ...
OSCAR ISAAC Then I thought I was going to be a photographer. I tried a hand at darkroom technician. I played in ...
GUY JOHNSON
I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a pr... BETTY FRIEDAN I love to play guitar and hack around. I was in a band when I was in high school. I never learned to...
JOHN F. KERRY
I play saxophone, I play tenor sax. ANDY SERKIS
Among other things, Marching Band forms state that if my kid starts acting like a li'l jerkface ... MARYJANICE DAVIDSON It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director...
BILLY ECKSTINE
I went to a boarding school when I was 13, and it was a very arty school, so there was an opportunit... TEDDY THOMPSON I was in the middle of the Marching Chiefs. And how many times do you get to be in the middle, the v...
JASON JOHNSTON
I didn't think I was wasting my time. I thought I was in the right company. Those guys were so good.... MICHAEL DAVIS Numbers are up. School spirit is up. Morale is up. I have one-tenth of the school in band.
ANDY CARTER Increasingly the booster clubs at the high school level are supplementing the music program, particu...
KARL RASCHKES Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drumme...
EWAN MCGREGOR So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did ...
DICK VAN DYKE
I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC Another very significant program that was enabled by the school building changes was the fifth grade...
JAMES RAYNER Each year, I take it upon myself as dean of students to go and talk to the freshman band members by ...
ROBERT BENNETT
I had a jazz trio, a rock n' roll band, and I played drums in junior high, high school, college,... J. D. SOUTHER I only went a year to high school. I should have been in high school, but I was in a band, and when ...
PETER NOONE The Busted thing happened when I was 16. I saw an opportunity, took it and it was better than being ...
CHARLIE SIMPSON I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. A...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.
SALLY PHILLIPS The first band I was ever in, I played guitar. We did Gary Glitter and Green Day covers at the time....
JACK ANTONOFF It's absolutely terrific to play in front of a crowd like this. It's the way high school basketball ...
DUANE PETERSON
When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio mu... SAMMY HAGAR
I've never really played golf. With the sax, I learned technique well enough so that it feels li... KENNY G I'd rather somebody punch me in the face than drop my sax.
CLARENCE CLEMONS
I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutel... BURT BACHARACH
I was raised Catholic. I went to Catholic school for 12 years. MEGAN FOX
I played the trumpet for nine years, and then I joined the choir after that, and then I was in music... BEBE REXHA
Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played ... STEVE MARTIN I ran the high school newspaper and was in student government. I played sports my whole life but was...
BING GORDON At school, I was the only guy who played baseball. Everyone thought I was a little different. There ...
DAMIAN MOSS
I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third b... MACKLEMORE
When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been... KURT COBAIN I excelled in English while I was at school.
JAMIE BELL I saw [State Radio] at Irving Plaza in New York City over winter break. They played to a sold-out cr...
ANDREW HOBSON Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing t...
ALESSANDRO NIVOLA
I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an a... BOBBY VINTON
My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When... SAM SHEPARD I played cello in my high school orchestra.
EBERHARD WEBER
I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a... PETE TOWNSHEND I played at the age of seven with my parents. I was a member of the American Heritage High School te...
ANDREW COSTIN You can imagine that if you are at the back of a band of one million marching crickets, there is lit...
PATRICK LORCH What we devised for The Full Monty was a little sort of odd band full of slightly unusual instrument...
ANNE DUDLEY
And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone... DAVID BOWIE
When I was four, we had to choose a musical instrument to play at school, and I chose the cello. I p... EMILIA FOX
Chris, listen to me, put down the gun and let the marching band go. We'll play it off as a prank. FRED WILLARD I was a baseball player. I played in high school and a little bit in college. I was a catcher. I don...
TIM DEKAY
I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my st... GEORGE SMOOT
When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record. AGNETHA FALTSKOG
I love my dad and respect him and miss him, but I never hung around my father that much because my d... ROBERT DAVID HALL We will actually have more classes offered in the area of music and band that, as far as I know, hav...
DWAYNE HOMA I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
ROBERT PLANT
