James Galway Quotes

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.

What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do.

I think having musical training as a child was really, really important. I studied piano as a child. Piano is a great instrument to understand musical theory on. I think I have that in my brain somewhere.

I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.

I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons.

I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.

I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do.

You should diligently play scales and fingerpractices. There are many, however, who believe they'll achieve all, by practicing daily on technique for hours on end, up till high age. It's like practicing every day to enumerate the alfabet faster and faster. One would think one could make better use of their valuable time.

I practice every day and that kind of stuff to maintain my musicianship.

Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical.

Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.

I've studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it.

Mother, being a pianist, told me how to play with my fingers on the piano.

I taught myself until I was about 16. And then I studied classical guitar with some teachers.

If you're a musician, there's no instrument that can be withheld from you. If you're drawn to it, develop the talent for it.

My father started me out on the flute and I began going to teachers.

I didn't start off as a bass player, and Guns was the first band I really, like, 'Oh, I'm gonna be a bass player. This is what I'm gonna do.' And I really dove into it head first.

My training has been in Hindustani classical, and I have done a six-week course in English vocals at Berklee. The holistic learning has helped me a lot.

But it's funny, I really was quite introverted as a child. I just liked music, so mum and dad bought me a piano when I was seven - I actually got up to Grade Seven at the London College of Music on piano.

Well my dad forced me into playing the violin when I was about three and it all started from there. I went to Suzuki for violin lessons, and you learn to play by ear instead of reading music.

For years, my actual listening activity has been governed by what I perceived to be good for me as a musician, almost like the way an athlete trains for a given sporting task. I'd listen to something if I felt it would improve my sense of harmony or counterpoint, or whatever I was working on.

I used to play in rock bands. Then I went to the first school of electronic music in the world. It was in Paris headed by one of the most important people involved in electronic music.

For singers and drummers, you've really gotta have your chops together just to do a rehearsal.

It was such a wake-up call going to music school and being one among so many that are really good at singing.