Jesse Spencer Quotes

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

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

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.

My first engagement with any art was music.

Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.

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 like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of respect for it, and I'm learning more and more every day. For me, the classic band setup - guitars, drums, bass - will stay fresh forever. I don't know. I'm still into it.

Music isn't only a profession.

I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist.

My only passion is music.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

As a kid, I took piano lessons, and I didn't like it. It wasn't cool. I was into Duran Duran and rock music. I didn't have any interest in piano. I did it for three years, and because of piano, I learned percussion. I learned scales. I learned how to sing. Piano gives you all of the basics of those things.

I've always liked music since I was younger.

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

I've been playing guitar since I was 6 and then drums, bass, and piano since I was 10 years old.

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.

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 didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements.

I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.

I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano.

My first instrument was a little blue ukele.

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

I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.

Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.