William Singe Quotes

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

Yes, but the great thing about all the people - and I don't think there is any exception - who I've worked with is they've all been very, very talented musicians.

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

One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing well. And they want everyone to be in that same category.

Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.

I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I'm just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.

I wasn't a good student in high school. I mean, I got through it, but unless it had something to do with music, it didn't really interest me.

I was real good at music and real bad at everything else.

I was pretty lucky to get into Berklee at all. I never really had any theory or music-reading capabilities; I was completely by ear.

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

You cannot help but notice that schools that take music seriously tend to be more academically successful.

I have to continue to make the older musicians proud and brush up on my skills.

Only one of my grandchildren is serious about a musical instrument. The others dabble in it.

All of my music teachers gave up on me one by one because I couldn't read music.

I was a bad student. My teachers gave up trying to teach me how to read music.

My parents made me take piano lessons from 1st grade to when I graduated from high school, and music never came to me as naturally as my other more visual artistic talents.

There's an interesting thing I've seen with Australian bands: when you put them side-by-side with bands from other parts of the world, they're just more musical. They're just better.

I worked with Mrs. Davis for four years, and then she realized, as the material started getting harder, that I had never learned to read. I was just listening as she'd play the song, and I'd play it back. When that happened, she got very upset and stopped being my teacher.

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.

Playing to a decent standard sometimes isn't enough.

There are times, like with Dire Straits, where you can get as close as you can be to being good at your instrument and not cross over to that tasteless place.

The thing is, I'm not really a great pianist at all. But if God said I could either sing or play piano, and which would it be? I would definitely choose the piano.

I don't really admire musicianship per se - as is obvious from my own playing.

In superficial terms, to have an orchestral career is to be better than others, or at least to be chosen over others on that particular occasion; it is a form of survival.