Evan Peters Quotes

I learned when I started to study piano that I could play by ear. I could hear a song on the radio a couple of times and hear the song and the lyrics and sing it for you after a couple of plays.

I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.

I love music and I enjoy creating sounds. I got into making music when I was a child, starting with the spoons and the koto before moving onto the piano.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.

I've always considered transcribing to be an invaluable tool in the development of one's musical ear and, over the years, I have spent countless glorious hours transcribing different kinds of music, either guitar-oriented or not.

It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.

I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.

I always wrote music for my friends, but my focus was on playing piano. I didn't think I'd be quite good enough to be a soloist, but I believed that if I worked hard enough, I could work as a player, a teacher.

I got a classical piano training when I was little, and we also had music study lessons where we'd have to listen to a lot of classical music.

I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.

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

I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear.

I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.

Yes indeed I have gained a lot out of playing scales and etudes.

What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.

Working on music is the funnest thing for me, and I love it, and I could do it all day, all night.

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.

We always had a guitar at home, but it wasn't until I was 14 when I picked it up myself when my father handed me these sheets of music of the Beatles and some other classics. That's where I learned all the chords and learned how to play and sing at the same time.

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

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!

I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer.

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.