Alber Elbaz Quotes

I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.

Slowly, over time, I learned enough that I started considering myself a musician, where I actually knew how to play instruments. But still, when I talk to my real musician friends, they're calling chords out, and I have no idea what they're talking about.

I'm not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It's all about exploration: just tune the guitar any way you want and start playing.

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 wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music.

I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.

Yeah, I can read music and I know the names of chords.

I've never been much for theory and scales.

I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.

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

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

If you look at an old piece of sheet music, there's all kinds of text on it, there are ads, there are proclamations of the greatest songs' success, there's artwork. So there is a tactile, physical experience of learning the song and the way it's notated.

I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style!

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself.

I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

I write arrangements. I'm sort of a wannabe composer.

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 don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.

I've always considered transcribing to be an invaluable tool in the development of one's musical ear and, over the years, I have spent countless glorious hours transcribing different kinds of music, either guitar-oriented or not.