David Ogden Stiers Quotes

I can sit on a chair with a score and give myself a wonderful performance.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

I can't play piano well enough without making mistakes.

I'm an interpreter of music.

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

I know a few chords on the guitar, but I wouldn't be able do a show or even be part of a jam session with one.

I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that it not fully unique to me, but it's more unique that some other people.

I was playing 'The Flight of the Bumblebee,' and I totally forgot the ending, so I performed the whole piece again, and I still couldn't remember it.

You've got to be able to play in the box and play deep.

I didn't have to apply my mind to the aspects of scales and playing, and instead, I focused on creativity. I wrote music, but I didn't 'practice' it. So yeah, you can always get better and improve your technique, but hopefully, that comes through being a musician and composing and being a creative individual.

I don't feel like I'm very good at making music.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

To play music, you have to understand it. I didn't understand 'Topographic Oceans.' That's why I hardly played on it. It frustrated me no end - and playing the whole thing on tour, I got farther and farther away from it.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

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.

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

I can play songs that I hear from a movie and just play it a few times on the keyboard. I will hit all the notes on the keyboard until I find the right key, and then I will play the rest of the song.

I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own.

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

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

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.

Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.