"I met my best friend at camp. We were swim buddies every day and lead an undefeated Nuke ‘Em team to victory four years in a row. He went on to be a lawyer, and I ended up a musician. Well, we don’t talk much anymore for some reason, but I’ll always remember Marquette Cabin of ’62."
---Peter Criss
"I went to camp as a kid, but boy was it run poorly. The kids actually had free time, and they all had fun. Well, I fixed that! I took over camp and made it my own little dictatorship in the U.P. Let me tell you, by Wednesday, most of the kids had gone home."
---Gov. John Engler
"Summer camp had a big influence on me as a musician. One year we sang all the verses to Rise and Shine, and it took about ten or fifteen minutes. That darn song just kept going on and on and on and on. I thought it was never going to end. Then in the middle of it, I stopped and thought: what if every song was this long? So I went with the concept, and I think it’s worked well for me so far."
---Meat Loaf
"I got kicked out of El. 2 when I was ten. When I was 11, I was thrown out of El. 3. They took me back for Junior High 2, but I only lasted three days. Then I became the dean of music camp, and I got kicked out of that, too. So I started my own camp. Somehow, I got kicked out of that. I don’t know how. I mean, it was my camp.
---Vinnie Vincent