Kristian Bush Quotes

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

I'm very interested in music, but I was not born musical. I honestly do think some people have the knack. I can't play an instrument. I'm a terrible singer. I'm not about to launch my album!

I wasn't the best student, and for some reason, I always got music. While other people were having trouble figuring out notes on a page, I could listen to it once and play it back.

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 like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.

I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.

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'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 wish I could sing or play an instrument.

The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.

I'm not musical myself.

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

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

I don't even want to say I'm trying to necessarily popularize classical music, I just want to take this thing, this cello, this sound, and make it artistic so people can understand it today.

I'm not a trained musician.

I, for certain, don't mind my son doing music.

I've never really considered myself a musician.

I just love music. I am very good at music.

I had learned classical guitar when I was a kid, and I embraced it, and apparently I got good at it.

I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my kind and my generation. I thought it was just old people talking.

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

I love Ray Charles. He can still teach everybody a lot about how to make great music. Not necessarily how to make hits, but how to make great music. Of course, part of it is his incredible talent. Who are the greatest jazz singers in the world? Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and Ray Charles.

I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?