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I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived.

— David Cassidy

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.

— Pat Metheny

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

— Adam Sandler

I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

— Barry Mann

Playing in my early bands, working as a studio musician, producing and going to art school was, in retrospect, my apprenticeship. I was learning and creating a solid foundation of ideas, but I wasn't really playing music.

— Jimmy Page

I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player.

— Chad Smith

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

— Billy Sherwood

I started bands at a pretty young age and played with my friends back in Detroit. I've always known that I wanted to do this. It was all I was ever interested in doing. I never had, outside of music, any extracurricular activities that I took part in.

— Alex Winston

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.

— Bobby McFerrin

✗Opposing Perspectives

I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.

— Loudon Wainwright III

I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.

— Gary Burton