Tom Odell Quotes

I started playing music when I was really young.

I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read.

The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.

I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.

My mum was very good at making me take up musical instruments, so although there was no popular music she made me learn the recorder when I was three, the violin when I was five and the piano when I was seven. I took up the guitar myself when I was 14.

I really don't know anything about music.

I grew up playing music, ever since I was 10 years old.

I first started playing the violin at 6. And then at 7, it was piano. So from then it was just classical music like every day.

I'm into scales right now.

Singing and playing have always gone hand-in-hand with me. I love 'em both equally.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

I've always listened to music, since I was really, really young.

I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music.

When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.

Yeah when I was 7 or 8 my moms would have little parties, and I would play the music.

I like to stick with music I know I can play. I love classical, but I don't think I could ever play it. I'm just not qualified.

I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear. I still think that you have to have an ear for music to really be able to feel and understand what you're playing. You can learn by watching and listening to other people.

The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.

I just started as a part of the public school music program. I took lessons at the school every Friday and was a part of the school band. I was just a normal kid taking instrumental lessons at school, nothing special.

I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.

I started playing music at a pretty young age.

The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn.

I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.

I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!