Oscar Isaac Quotes

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.

I'm a terrible trumpet player.

How could I? I only know two tunes. One of them is Yankee Doodle. The other isn't.

I was always good at music.

I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

I play no instruments.

See, I'm not a very good musician.

So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone.

The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player.

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.

I practice on the acoustic guitar a little bit, but I think I have reached the peak of my talent.

The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human beings to do. Once you put in the effort, the learning curve is very fast.

I know I'm not musically talented.

If you can't play the blues... you might as well hang it up.

I wanted to play the piano, but my fingers weren't long enough, so I took up the guitar.

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

You have a natural groove inside of you, but the more you practise, the more comfortable you will be with your instrument.

I think - actually, I know - that I am, without a doubt, the world's worst drummer.

I studied percussion as a music student, and I didn't have the best of timing, so I could never make it as a professional, unfortunately.