Lucia Micarelli Quotes

Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing.

Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it.

Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with a good sound that's already high level. Those three are the main things.

I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn't have any drums.

We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.

If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.

I think the fundamental part of my technique is my vibrato.

I took vocal lessons all through my childhood and still do. I was classically trained.

I play more rhythmically than I do a lot of notes.

I would enjoy venturing into music, as I do write songs and compose music! And, of course, dance, rhythm and performance are in my blood, so eventually I see myself doing something in that area, surely!

To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

I love singing. I have spent as much of my life trying to improve my singing as I have practising guitar.

Learning a play is one thing, but to learn to play Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons' without music: that's brilliant.

I've studied classical singing, but not to a great extent.

I used to play the drums when I was, like, 5 through 10.

When I was in college and reading music and doing ear training, I was a little more advanced than the other people in my choir classes. So to entertain myself and kind of annoy the friends around me, I would sing just under the pitch or just above the pitch.

I did classical music when I was a teenager, but the experience of performing a classical concert felt too frighteningly pristine for me to continue with it.

I studied classical music for a long time, maybe 10 years, and I realized finally I was never going to have the hands to play that stuff.

I always wanted to be a composer, and I sort of went in to NYU as pre-med because I just thought, 'Well... who actually becomes a composer?'

When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.

I got a classical piano training when I was little, and we also had music study lessons where we'd have to listen to a lot of classical music.

It takes a lifetime and a half to master the classical guitar.