Simon Helberg Quotes

I'm not a great piano player.

I like to stick with music I know I can play. I love classical, but I don't think I could ever play it. I'm just not qualified.

So, I really don't consider myself a fabulous keyboard player.

I think I'm a very poor piano player.

I wouldn't even go spend the night at a friend's unless they had a piano. But I didn't have the chops, the extraordinary talent, to be able to play the piano professionally.

I'm not really a pianist.

I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right piano and organ player for the Heartbreakers. And I've been the right piano and organ player for a lot of sessions that I've been called on.

See, I'm not a very good musician.

I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.

It's very hard to find a pianist that's willing to play the so-called accompanist role on part of the program and yet be capable of being a great solo pianist that you would want for the big sonatas.

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.

I'd say I'm really, really good for a 16-year-old, which is where I peaked. I'm impressive, but not classically trained, not a concert pianist.

Piano was my first instrument, but it wasn't the instrument that I showed the most proficiency on.

I'm musical in the sense that I can write a song, but I realised when I was learning the piano as a child that there were people who played it so much better.

I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

Everybody on our cast is very musically talented, except for me.

There's no way we could play a country song as well as a country band or a Latin song as well as a Latin band. We could never expect to do that. We just keep doing what we do, what we know how to do. We sound like ourselves.

My dad actually taught me how to play piano. I was classically trained, but I've started to branch off a little bit into blues and jazz. That's my new thing.

The Doors were never that good as musicians.

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.