Elias Quotes

I'm an okay drummer, I'm an okay bass player, I'm an okay keyboardist, and I'm a quite good guitar player.

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

I'll never be the best guitar player.

I was never really a virtuoso guitar player per se.

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

I play guitar, bass, drums, piano, and pretty much any sort of stringed instrument - besides violin or cello.

Guitar playing isn't really for everybody.

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

I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well.

Even Angus says that Malcolm is a better guitarist than he is. He makes the drummer's job so easy, he's a metronome.

Can't no man play like me.

I was definitely not one of those kids prodigy guitar players.

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.

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

The only thing I was any good at was music.

I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.

The Doors were never that good as musicians.

I can play any instrument if you give me 20 minutes.

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.

I would love to be able to program myself to pick up any instrument and to be able to play it very, very well, and to be able to read music and dance as well. I'm very uncoordinated, and I'd love to be able to bust a really great move.

See, I'm not a very good musician.

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player.

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.