Holly Hunter Quotes

I've been playing since I was 5, but I wouldn't say that I'm serious about the piano.

I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.

I think there are always people who, when they get the bug to play an instrument, they want to get as good as they can with it rather than just be simply adequate at it. You run into them every once in a while - some kid who wants to be the next Stevie Ray Vaughan, for whatever reason, and plays exactly like him.

I have no clue as to where my interest and love for music came from. In fact, I have never learnt any music either, though I wish that I could just close my eyes and play the piano - that is my most cherished desire.

I play piano very badly. That's my great regret.

I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

Music is my sport, and I'm the number-one athlete.

I wouldn't even go spend the night at a friend's unless they had a piano. But I didn't have the chops, the extraordinary talent, to be able to play the piano professionally.

I'm musical in the sense that I can write a song, but I realised when I was learning the piano as a child that there were people who played it so much better.

I'm a failed percussionist, you see.

I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was far greater than my ability.

I thought it was too 'glam rock' to practice. The problem is that now I'm a pretty bad guitar player.

I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.

I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.

I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.

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

I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician.

My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!

I was for a minor amount of time but I was probably a better pianist at 15 than I am now.

I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.

I practice on the acoustic guitar a little bit, but I think I have reached the peak of my talent.

I guess from 12 onwards I was always into my music.

Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.

If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.

I wanted to play the piano, but my fingers weren't long enough, so I took up the guitar.