Tiffany Darwish Quotes

I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.

Obviously you have to have rhythm. If you have rhythm, then you can play anything you need. If you have rhythm and you love music, then play and play and play until you get to where you want to get. If you can pay the rent, great. If you can't, then you'd better be having fun.

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

I actually was a musician in college, a composer and singer, and really intended to be the second coming of Leonard Bernstein when I got out.

Music has always been something that I knew that I would eventually want to pursue.

I have done nothing my entire life but play music.

Age isn't a barrier to playing the bass, and I've definitely improved over the years, although maybe I'm not as flash as I once was. But looking back, I can't imagine a life without a guitar.

I play no instruments.

I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano.

I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.

Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.

I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

I always felt that I would become somebody outstanding, whether it was in singing, instrumental playing, orchestra conducting, or anything involving feeling.

I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into the drums when I was six, and then I started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.

I love music so much I love what I do. I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

I've played piano and guitar when I was younger.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

I've never mastered the guitar. Either I was playing it, or it was playing me; it depends how you look at it. As a kid, the only things I had to do was go to school, do my homework, and play guitar.

You have a natural groove inside of you, but the more you practise, the more comfortable you will be with your instrument.

No matter what comes your way, being a musician, you will never, ever learn to play it all.

If what you do for a living is play drums or bass, then that defines you. You don't want to be some guy missing notes here and there; you want to really speak with it.

I wanted to be the best guitar player in the world. And then my dad got me a portable recorder, so I started writing my own music.

I worked extremely hard at my craft and at being a good songwriter, being a good guitar player, being a good organist, because I didn't think people would take me seriously.