Wes Borland Quotes

I compose melodies in my head and then interpret them musically with my guitar and keep them recorded. The guitar helps me to build unique chord structures on simple melodies.

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

I'm an interpreter of music.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

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

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

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.

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

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.

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

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.

Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

You've got to be able to play in the box and play deep.

I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.

My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.

It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano.

Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion.

I write in all keys. I've always written in all keys. I've probably written a lot of songs in A.

I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.