Gordon Lightfoot Quotes

I've been writing music since I was a teenager. I play keyboards. I'm not much of a player, but I can write. That will come along. I'd like to do a musical.

I'm a pianist - I studied jazz piano in college.

It had a very good arrangement by Herbie Hancock, but it used existing pieces.

I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general.

I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.

I became a professional musician and played all kinds of music. I played bluegrass, I played classical music, and for many years, I played jazz.

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.

Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.

I play the drums, and I'm trying to teach myself how to play the piano.

I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to write. We had to write something that was good and to sit up with a great guy like Art Blakey and watch him.

I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

I don't know any jazz stuff. I don't know how to jam in that way. So jamming, for me, is writing a tune.

I studied jazz in college. I studied music history, and I have a degree in music engineering.

My main object is to write, to keep learning. I always try to perfect my composition. But I do like writing film and opera music. I believe that it fulfills the needs of particular situations.

It's a beautiful thing to have time in the world, as a singer and as a musician, to make friends with people of the musical caliber of a Tommy Smith, an Arturo Sandoval, a Richard Galliano, a Till Broenner.

I wish I could write music notation. Even if I couldn't play it, I wish I could just write it.

Influences at home, including classical music, were not all specifically jazz, but the family radio was always on... So there was always some connection to American culture, to American music.

Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I got a lot of knowledge about everything from classical music to jazz to musicals.

I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.

I can't read or write music. When I want to remember something, I try to remember all the keys on the piano. Which is what I still do. I put the numbers on the keys. And that's got to become music again.

They say that Jazz is back, and I don't think it's gone anywhere. But they say it's back.