Corin Tucker Quotes

I started playing on my grandmother's organ at a really young age. I learned 'Chopsticks' and that kind of thing, but I didn't really start picking it up and start taking it super seriously until I was probably about 13, 14.

I'm not a trained 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.

Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.

To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.

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

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

I am classically trained in piano, flute, and voice.

I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.

I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in 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.

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

I started playing piano; I picked up a ukulele, and I loved it and kept playing that. I play a bit of guitar, and some African drums from back in the day.

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

I went to school for folk music back when I was a teenager and learned hundreds of songs.

I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess a lot of it came from being taught at school.

Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.

When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.

I ended up taking piano lessons at a really young age, I took, like, years of piano lessons, and I always loved to sing.

I first began with the recorder in our community music school. After that, I played horn and participated in the school orchestra.

Learning music is a birthright. And you have to start young.

You know, many people do not know that I am so immersed when it comes to music. I have such a huge knowledge of music. I like my songs, I like my melodies, my harmonies, you know.

I went to school to learn guitar, solfeggio, and harmony. I wanted to know more about music, how it works. I wanted to take voice lessons, too, and that's when I discovered what I could do with my voice. At the beginning, I thought I would do classical and pop, but then I learned that I really liked the classical music.

My dad was a really good classical guitarist. He took lessons with a student of Andre Segovia.

I started playing piano when I was eight, and I went on to study piano in school, so I have a background in classical piano and studied composition in school. Writing music came later.