Billy Strayhorn Quotes

The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.

Playing guitar is not a beauty contest.

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.

You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

The only thing I have ever really cared to be known as is a musician.

I'm an okay drummer, I'm an okay bass player, I'm an okay keyboardist, and I'm a quite good guitar player.

I don't feel like I'm very good at making music.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style!

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.

I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player.

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.

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.

I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.

If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.

Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think?

I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.

I've written my own music, and I play guitar.

I'm not the sort of chap who can sit down and write music. When it comes, I'm happy.