Patrick Carney Quotes

I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano.

I am very unmusical. I can't carry a tune. I would never be able to play an instrument.

I play no instruments.

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

But I'm tone deaf - window-shattering tone deaf. I can't sing for the life of me. I can't sing or dance, so no remake of 'Grease' for me!

Everyone in my family is pretty much tone-deaf.

I don't feel like I'm very good at making music.

I'm literally tone-deaf with singing. It's unreal.

But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.

I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.

I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing.

I am musical. I play guitar.

I've got a pretty good musical ear, and I can pick things up.

There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.

The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human beings to do. Once you put in the effort, the learning curve is very fast.

I can play songs that I hear from a movie and just play it a few times on the keyboard. I will hit all the notes on the keyboard until I find the right key, and then I will play the rest of the song.

I just can't read music.

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a good 'inner ear' - the art of being able to decipher musical components solely through listening - is the most important element in becoming a good musician.

You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.

I've never known how to read music in my life.