Richard Strauss Quotes

There are some people who are just plain great at making music. That's not who I am.

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

I don't really admire musicianship per se - as is obvious from my own playing.

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.

I think - actually, I know - that I am, without a doubt, the world's worst drummer.

The only thing I was any good at was music.

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

Everybody on our cast is very musically talented, except for me.

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.

Frank's bands could play the hardest stuff and make it seem like no big deal.

Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything.

I was a lucky kid. You could have got 10 kids to be in The Byrds who were better than I was.

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.

I think Jerry Lee is sad. As a musician, he was far more talented than Elvis Presley. Everybody down in Memphis knows that. Elvis became a movie star because he was beautiful. Not that Elvis wasn't talented, but Jerry Lee Lewis was incomprehensibly talented as a musician.

I was always good at music.

Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.

Can't no man play like me.

Playing to a decent standard sometimes isn't enough.

I'm not saying I'm the bee's knees. But I am a legitimate musician.

It took me 20 years to learn I couldn't tune too well. And by that time I was too rich to care.

I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.