William Klein Quotes

I don't have technique because I never learnt any.

People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.

I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear.

I play by ear - I'm self-taught. And so everything I do is through that technique.

When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.

The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about being a rock star. It's about the fundamentals of music, theory and technique on a particular instrument, and playing in an ensemble or private setting.

And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.

Music is what I do naturally.

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

But without the experience of actually singing or playing these things yourself, you don't have the same kind of involvement or understanding of what these musical moves mean. And that is a very big problem in addressing the future of music.

The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further.

To the best of my knowledge, none of the Beatles can read music.

I really don't know anything about music.

I feel that in order to learn as much about music as I would like to learn, I would need more than one lifetime.

At the end of the day, I think having some life experience is helpful to play any kind of music.

That's all I know how to do, just make music.

I got books full of music.

The more I can learn about music, the more I learn about other things.

I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.

I never really learned photography.

It's kind of scary sometimes, I've seen this a lot in Asia. Children are given music lessons, very intensively I might add and involving great technical expertise sometimes, but you can tell that they have been told only to play happy pleasant music.

Just so people know, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music is not at all about celebrity or fame or being a star. It's an academic music school.

There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.