Catherine Hardwicke Quotes

I play the piano a lot at home. I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage. I don't think I'll get the chance for a while.

I'm interested in directing attention and focus, explored through playing cello.

If you do performance and music, it's not performance as music.

I do radio gigs, three-minute spots, solo shows, so I still get plenty of practice at the sniper attack - me at a piano or with a guitar, having to win people over fast.

Music was my first love, but it was difficult for me. It's something that I really love, but I didn't feel that I was so good at it. I can sing well, but I'm not a great singer. When I sing, I don't feel I'm expressing all the emotions.

I play like I play. You hear it on 'Celebration Day.' It's pretty good for a one-night shot.

I like people writing great songs on guitar or piano or what have you. I miss people getting on stage with real bands and real instruments and expressing themselves that way instead of with computers and technology.

I've written my own music, and I play guitar.

I was always good at music.

I really like conducting my music in concerts because I'm convinced it's not just for films; it has its own life. It can live far away from the images of the movie.

We had a bunch of instruments around the house. Like, I played different instruments, trumpet, bass, drums, piano, all that, but whatever I could get my hands on.

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.

When I play the trumpet, I'm in a different character.

Acting is me, but music is even more me. It's everything.

I want to express my ideas through my music and on stage because I'm a musician.

My father being a theatre person used to compose music for his plays. He noticed me singing one of his compositions at a young age and he was amazed. From then on, he taught me the little things that he knew about music.

The piano is the instrument I can play the most.

I've spent my life playing music.

I don't know what aids creativity. All I know is that it feels natural to hold a guitar in my hands and sing.

First, I started with music singing, writing songs, playing music. Later, I got into acting. I'm not a brilliant musician or a brilliant actor. But, to me, they're still great vehicles for expression.

Music is my second love.

My only passion is music.

I love Mozart, but I often make a terrible hash of it.

I don't mind playing my music live. It's fun. But what my real passion is is writing music.

I am so highly skilled that when I pick up a phrase and then pick up my guitar, a form comes out almost immediately - a song - and once I start, I have to finish it.