Jim Sullivan Quotes

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

I keep a fiddle hooked up in the music - we've got a music room - and try to pick it up.

I had learned classical guitar when I was a kid, and I embraced it, and apparently I got good at it.

And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

I'm a struggling guitar player.

I was always super, super musical. So my parents recognized that and put me in choirs, piano lessons, and all that.

My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didn't learn the guitar until I was 24 years old.

I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.

I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.

If you're a musician, there's no instrument that can be withheld from you. If you're drawn to it, develop the talent for it.

I think every singer should get a formal training in music.

As I grow older, I just want to be a better musician, to play more.

I've played piano since I was probably six or seven, but I stopped when I was about 13, and I couldn't be bothered to do the exams or learn my scales.

I'm a musician, and I feel like musicians owe it to themselves and owe it to music to concern themselves with as much of music as interests them. Even if you decide that you're never going to compose, you will be a better performer if you concern yourself with the craft of composition.

I played in orchestras all through high school and taught myself how to play guitar.

I'm not a 'practicing' musician anymore. I played bass and guitar. I still pick up a guitar around the house every once in awhile.

I had piano lessons when I was five or six years old, so my mom got me this little keyboard in my room. And then it progressed from that to classical guitar and drums and oboe.

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.

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

I can play the piano. I started off with lessons, and then, as we always had a piano in the house, I would play around and became quite good.

I play the guitar and the piano and have a group of guys who I play with. They're uber talented.

I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.

I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.

I went to music school, and I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student.