Adrian Younge Quotes

I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts.

I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

I really practiced hard and got to a certain level of technical proficiency. I overcame some of my limitations. I was a hard-working, dedicated bassoonist, but I have to say I'm not a natural musician.

Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.

I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good!

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.

I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.

If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water.

I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If we'd had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.

I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice.

One thing you notice is, there's a lot of people with raw talent, and then there's people who take that talent and work hard.

I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.

My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect.

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

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

It's all about learning your craft and honing it in and really paying attention to people who are doing it and what their advice is. It's like anything: it takes years and years and years. A lot of it comes down to work ethic.

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.

I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.

Nobody worked harder than Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed because of all the hours he had spent practicing, performing, and gripping a quill pen to compose. That's the missing element in the popular portrait of Mozart.