Gwen Stefani Quotes

I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.

I've been playing the drums since age nine.

You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.

I love to sing. I'm learning guitar right now.

Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now.

I learned how to play the drums. When we were in pre-production, when we were still in LA, I had a couple of drum lessons and then some in Toronto. I got the one beat down and that was it.

When you play a sax, that saxophone is irreverent. It's noisy; it's a trickster... you cannot hide the saxophone in your hands, so it's a good teacher.

I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.

It keeps my feet on the ground just making sure that I'm always trying to learn something new or trying to be a real guitar player.

I love playing music with people, but I also just love the art and meditation of being alone and working on stuff.

I love improvising.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.

I loved dance.

I had studied violin from age 7 to 14.

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

I've always been a fan of instructional videos. The bass-player ones are insane. The music on them is fascinating. It's not something you hear on CDs or would really ever play in bands. You listen to it and are like, 'What is happening?' It's this blizzard of notes in weird time signatures, and they're trying to teach you that.

Anything that broadens your musicality always moves the way you write drum or guitar parts.

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs.