Lionel Hampton Quotes

You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear.

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.

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

It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano.

I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.

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 like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of respect for it, and I'm learning more and more every day. For me, the classic band setup - guitars, drums, bass - will stay fresh forever. I don't know. I'm still into it.

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

I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano.

I always think about stuff I learned, in any scene. Juilliard taught me a lot.

If you've never heard a piece of Mozart, then Mozart could sound scary or confusing, so it's all about learning.

I studied opera for a year at Georgia State University, but I wasn't interested in that meticulous, technical approach to music. So I left school and went back to jazz.

I would sit in my dorm room and write songs. I loved it. I was learning to sing and play guitar. I was becoming a musician. I was the beginner who somehow could write a song.

I had 10 years of lessons at the conservatory in Belgium, studying classical music. I learned how to sing, play the piano, and all the theory that I needed. By the time I left, I had confidence in my skills, and I knew that the experience had prepared me to become a real professional.

I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

My mother was a very talented pianist, and she was a music teacher who hated to teach music, actually, but she loved to play, so I was brought up with Chopin, Debussy and Mozart.

I would practice while listening to records or learn from musicians who were better than I was.

When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.

Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion.

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.

I was a drummer and I played the guitar.

I'm an interpreter of music.

I always just sit down at the piano and make the main hook - what I want the track to be about melodically - and then I'll build everything else around that. But growing up, I did not play any instruments.