Mick Taylor Quotes

What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.

I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

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

I'm not a trained musician.

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

I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.

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

You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear.

I play bass. I play a bit of guitar. I've never been to a lesson, so my theory of music is non-existent in any instrument, but we always had guitars around.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

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

I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself.

I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.

I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.

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've been devoting quite a bit of my time to harmonic studies on my own, in libraries and places like that. I've found you've got to look back at the old things and see them in a new light.

I still have a lot to learn. I'm concentrating on learning a lot more about music.

I studied classical music in high school.

I'm a real musician's musician: I get really geeky on chords and arrangements.

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.

And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

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.

The study of music was a family interest.

I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my kind and my generation. I thought it was just old people talking.

Studying music in a conservatory would be stifling for me, although I respect people who can do it. And by no means am I an expert at notating music or music theory - that's not really my world.