Glenn Tipton Quotes

I didn't touch a guitar until I was 20.

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 had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons.

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.

Mother, being a pianist, told me how to play with my fingers on the piano.

I wanted to start doing more music, doing more things than just playing guitar. I started taking singing lessons and piano lessons. I need to learn more things, to be an artist or whatever, and then transfer that back into writing songs.

I grew up in that band. Some people go to college and get a Master's. I went to My Chem academy, and I feel like I graduated with honors.

For years, my actual listening activity has been governed by what I perceived to be good for me as a musician, almost like the way an athlete trains for a given sporting task. I'd listen to something if I felt it would improve my sense of harmony or counterpoint, or whatever I was working on.

I would never have been able to find my voice if I didn't have music education.

I started to music when I was about 19 years old. Most people that do music, they get training, or they develop themselves before they let their music out. For myself, I was actually developing myself and putting my music out at the same time.

A lot of times I wish I would have learned to read music, but I'm very impatient.

In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.

About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar.

Your life is a learning process - you can only become wiser from learning. Sometimes you might have to attract making a painful mistake to learn something important, but after the mistake you have far greater wisdom. Wisdom cannot be bought with money - it can only be acquired through living life. With wisdom comes strength, courage, knowing, and an ever-increasing peace.

It has taken me thirty three years and a bang on the head to get my values right.

When I was 4 years old my mother put me into an early music education school. That's where they taught you perfect pitch and harmony and how to write music and all that. At that time, one of the homeworks was to listen to all the sounds and the noise of a day and transfer that into musical notes.

A magazine editor recently asked me to sit down on my 40th birthday and write an article on the most important things I had learned in my first 40 years. I told him that the chief thing I had learned was that the copybook maxims are true, but that too many people forget this once they go out into the heat and hustle and bustle of the battle of life and only realize their truth once one foot is beginning to slip into the grave. The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

I'm happy that I was able to experience a normal life besides show business, because it gives you something to draw from.

I was 19 when I recorded my first album, and I've been exposed to many things during these last few years; all the baby fat is gone.

A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection

One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.

I was facing life for the first time. I was 12 years old, but I felt like a 20 year old. I knew then what life was.

Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

It's very weird to succeed at thirty-nine years old and realize that in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway.

By the time I got to the Paris Conservatoire I was very good at the scales and arpeggios.