Alec Baldwin Quotes

There are some people who are just plain great at making music. That's not who I am.

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

Frank's bands could play the hardest stuff and make it seem like no big deal.

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.

Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.

My wife is an incredible pianist. I don't think there's anything my wife can't do, in all actuality.

My big brother Ryan was funny and unfailingly kind. He was one of the most talented musicians you might encounte, and had a prodigious ability to pick up any instrument and play it by ear within the span of a single day.

I'm not saying I'm the bee's knees. But I am a legitimate musician.

I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.

The only thing I was any good at was music.

The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.

I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.

Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.

I'm a slow learner. When people are so talented or facile at picking up an instrument and playing covers, like Yo La Tengo, I admire that. But I could never do that.

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.

Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.

When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.

I really don't think I have that much of the gift; I have a little bit, but I wish I were Schubert or Chopin or Beethoven, though Beethoven had a very difficult time writing melody, too.

I think some people just have an innate musical ability, and I'm lucky enough to be one of those people.

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.

I've never taken a lesson in my life, and I can play every instrument there is. I play by ear, but I can fool anybody into thinking I went to some conservatory of music.