Dichen Lachman Quotes

I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's not.

Everybody on our cast is very musically talented, except for me.

I can conduct better than I count.

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.

Music was the first thing I did where I was naturally talented.

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.

I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.

The only thing I was any good at was music.

I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.

I'm a slow learner. When people are so talented or facile at picking up an instrument and playing covers, like Yo La Tengo, I admire that. But I could never do that.

I'm a terrible dancer! Oh, I'm an awful dancer!

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.

Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

I created this picture of this character who would play the guitar effortlessly, who had no limitations, performing beautiful music, and he moved around with great acrobatic skills, just capturing the audience and being a great entertainer.

I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well.

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.

I was pretty lucky to get into Berklee at all. I never really had any theory or music-reading capabilities; I was completely by ear.

Frank's bands could play the hardest stuff and make it seem like no big deal.

I taught myself to read music at a very young age, so when I started to take lessons in school, the teachers used to give me other instruments to keep me busy, because I was more advanced than the other kids.

I play piano very badly. That's my great regret.

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.

I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.