Tony Bennett Quotes

When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.

My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.

I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music.

The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.

I am permanently a student of people who make great songs, but besides sort of learning by absorption, I just love listening to music, hearing what's going on, hearing new things or new old things.

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.

I learnt everything to do with music in my own time.

You can never learn enough about music.

I'm not a trained musician.

I am pretty well versed in the knowledge of music.

When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.

The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.

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.

A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working.

Music is a passion of mine. I'm always listening, always learning.

I really don't know anything about music.

I feel that in order to learn as much about music as I would like to learn, I would need more than one lifetime.

I played music my whole life - piano, saxophone.

At the end of the day, I think having some life experience is helpful to play any kind of music.

I love to play music. I'm terrible at it, but I love learning about it .

I don't have any hobbies. Music is my hobby.

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

I have always been into music. That's my number one passion.