Dick Dale Quotes

I'm not a trained musician.

I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.

What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.

I always wrote for musicians, especially guitarists. I write songs that people who aren't great virtuosos can play.

I learnt everything to do with music in my own time.

I can play piano, classical flute, guitar, bass and I'm OK on drums.

I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.

I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music.

I write on all instruments.

I've played the guitar since I was 12, and just taught myself songs chord by chord.

I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear. I still think that you have to have an ear for music to really be able to feel and understand what you're playing. You can learn by watching and listening to other people.

I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.

I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.

I play bass. I play a bit of guitar. I've never been to a lesson, so my theory of music is non-existent in any instrument, but we always had guitars around.

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

I'm not that musical. I don't really know how a record is produced, and, funnily enough, I don't want to.

The ultimate guitar players can play every scale in the book.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

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'm a pretty good drummer. I'm pretty good at guitar, bass and piano. I can play accordion; I'm not virtuoso. I've played cello before. My sister played it, and I know how to play it, but I'm not the best. Violin is kind of the same thing.

I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!

I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.

I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight.

I've studied several guitar players and songwriters, mostly from Al di Meola to Dimebag Darrell, from Freddie Mercury of Queen to Kurt Cobain of Nirvana and Bradley Nowell of Sublime.