Rostam Batmanglij Quotes

I learned when I started to study piano that I could play by ear. I could hear a song on the radio a couple of times and hear the song and the lyrics and sing it for you after a couple of plays.

I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano.

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.

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.

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.

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

I've been playing guitar since I was 6 and then drums, bass, and piano since I was 10 years old.

I've been playing the viola since I was 6 years old, and then I decided to switch it up a bit, so I've been playing the violin since I was 11. I started playing the piano when I was 11, and I started playing the guitar when I was 10.

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

Everyone played a bit of guitar in our family.

I don't know how it got around that I play a lot of instruments. I really don't. I play the guitar and the mandolin.

I play the sax, piano, guitar, bass... I started as a kid with piano lessons.

Music was my first love, and at Marlborough we put bands together and sang the pop songs of the day. Although I couldn't read or write music - I still can't - I taught myself to play the guitar and piano by listening to songs and working out the chords.

So many people have gone to music production schools for years and years, and they've wanted this their whole entire life, and part of me feels like I've kind of cheated that a bit because I'm not grade A on piano, and I don't know a lot about production. But I do what I do.

I play guitar, I jam on the piano, drums, and even the triangle.

I've been classically trained in piano since I was little. My father was a pianist, so they started me early.

I began making music at the age of four. According to my mother, once I just sat down at the piano and played back a tune by ear. My parents were watching and said to each other, 'Maybe we should give him music lessons.'

My grandpa was a country singer, and I started learning guitar from him, just at the kitchen table when I was younger, and I got really into it.

As soon as I figured out I didn't know anything about music, I was OK. It's when I thought I could learn something that I was in trouble.

I play guitar; I can sing a little bit.

I started at the piano at the age of 4.

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've played the guitar since I was 12, I've played the piano since I was 15.

I've played piano since I was 4 years old, and I've always loved songs by J. S. Bach.

I started piano like my sisters. After one year or two, I didn't like it anymore. Then, because I like trumpet, I played the cornet. When you are 7, you can't play trumpet - you play cornet. And something didn't go well. The teacher was too hard. Too rough. Suddenly, there was this instrument, the flute, that I could immediately play.