Mac DeMarco Quotes

We had a bunch of instruments around the house. Like, I played different instruments, trumpet, bass, drums, piano, all that, but whatever I could get my hands on.

I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day.

I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.

My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.

I started off with violin, then I started learning guitar, then I went to piano. But I self-taught piano just because I enjoyed it. I've always really enjoyed music.

I think musically.

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

My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano.

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.

I was a drummer and I played the guitar.

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.

I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.

Since I first picked up the violin, I've been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to the texture of a snare drum or a pedal steel guitar or a violin.

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

I remember learning how to play 'The Fool On The Hill' on piano when I was in maybe fifth grade.

I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that it not fully unique to me, but it's more unique that some other people.

Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.

I don't read music. I've never had a lesson. I don't know anything about music other than what my inner knowledge is.

I can play anything - piano, drums, guitar, harp - I can even play a trumpet through another trumpet.

Fundamentally, if there is any secret, it is about the need to find that peace and calm in our personal space with music, as most of 'learning music' is about listening to music and practicing over and over again.

Music is an intrinsic part of life; therefore, it is important to transport different forms of artistic expression, science, and mathematics into compositions.