Charles Soule Quotes

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.

I'm an interpreter of music.

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.

I can play songs that I hear from a movie and just play it a few times on the keyboard. I will hit all the notes on the keyboard until I find the right key, and then I will play the rest of the song.

I've always said that music is like literature.

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

I've never known how to read music in my life.

I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that it not fully unique to me, but it's more unique that some other people.

I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it.

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

I think musically.

I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

Musical composition, about which I know little, is a complicated art, and some contemporary music may be the equivalent of a complex abstract painting.

I know how to read music, watching my mom and listening to Mom play music.

I just play music by listening and responding, so I don't know anything about writing songs or arranging and all of this stuff. You know, it's in my head, but I don't know how to get it out.

When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.

Studying music involves a lot of mathematics and a lot of exercises of memory. Or you've got to be able to be like somebody, to play like somebody, to play Mozart's music the way he played it and how he intended it. You've got to make it perfect, and that's not what I want to do. Although it is beautiful.

The water in music the oar forsakes. The air in music the wing forsakes. All things in move in music and write it. The mouse, lizard, and grasshopper sing together on the Turlock sands, sing with the morning stars.

I wish I could play music. I think I get as closeas possible with the editing of the films. Over the years musichas been an even more important influence than-or as important as-film.There's no doubt about it. Painting, movement, dance, sculpture-it'sall in cinema.

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.