Anthony Gonzalez Quotes

I play guitar, I jam on the piano, drums, and even the triangle.

I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.

I can play piano, classical flute, guitar, bass and I'm OK on drums.

I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!

I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight.

I play the piano, drums, little bit of bass, guitar. I can play harmonica, a little bit of the ukulele. Pretty much anything that's a strumming, string type thing.

I played music my whole life - piano, saxophone.

I learnt everything to do with music in my own time.

I went to college to study the piano and cello.

I'm not a trained musician.

When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.

I write on all instruments.

I love Ray Charles. He can still teach everybody a lot about how to make great music. Not necessarily how to make hits, but how to make great music. Of course, part of it is his incredible talent. Who are the greatest jazz singers in the world? Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and Ray Charles.

I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.

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.

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

I started playing piano; I picked up a ukulele, and I loved it and kept playing that. I play a bit of guitar, and some African drums from back in the day.

I do have musical background; I sing.

When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple and stripped down. And then all the hip hop I liked was super simple and stripped down and we always heard that connection.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.

I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.