Noel Gallagher Quotes

I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.

In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music.

When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.

I became a professional musician and played all kinds of music. I played bluegrass, I played classical music, and for many years, I played jazz.

I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.

I am permanently a student of people who make great songs, but besides sort of learning by absorption, I just love listening to music, hearing what's going on, hearing new things or new old things.

I'm a pretty good drummer. I'm pretty good at guitar, bass and piano. I can play accordion; I'm not virtuoso. I've played cello before. My sister played it, and I know how to play it, but I'm not the best. Violin is kind of the same thing.

I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.

I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.

I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music.

Yes, I have been studying piano since I was six. Classical, jazz, compositional, Broadway, everything. I just love it all.

I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.

I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.

Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.

Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.

Yeah, I can read music and I know the names of chords.

I love the whole aspect of music, especially the singing; I never get tired of finding new songs to sing and sing them in a way that's interesting for the public.

I played music my whole life - piano, saxophone.

I still have a lot to learn. I'm concentrating on learning a lot more about music.

I'm not a classically trained composer, and I can't sing very well.

A lot of producers don't have any musical education. I couldn't make the music I make without playing the piano.