Jack Garratt Quotes

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn't last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn't have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.

I think it's important to learn instruments, whenever one has a little space. Be eager to learn and love your instrument.

I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.

I remember learning how to play 'The Fool On The Hill' on piano when I was in maybe fifth grade.

Fundamentally, if there is any secret, it is about the need to find that peace and calm in our personal space with music, as most of 'learning music' is about listening to music and practicing over and over again.

As a kid, I took piano lessons, and I didn't like it. It wasn't cool. I was into Duran Duran and rock music. I didn't have any interest in piano. I did it for three years, and because of piano, I learned percussion. I learned scales. I learned how to sing. Piano gives you all of the basics of those things.

I know how to read music, watching my mom and listening to Mom play music.

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

I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.

You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.

I started playing piano when I was around four; that's my first passion.

I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.

That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

I've never known how to read music in my life.

When I was 12, I wanted to learn how to play the guitar, and I found a chord book in a shop, and I stuffed it down my trousers. And that's how I learned to play the guitar.

I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it.

I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly.

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing.

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

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

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.