Tash Sultana Quotes

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

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

I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well.

I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments.

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

I'm an okay drummer, I'm an okay bass player, I'm an okay keyboardist, and I'm a quite good guitar player.

You know, I am very versatile in music.

I thought it was too 'glam rock' to practice. The problem is that now I'm a pretty bad guitar player.

I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.

I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts.

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.

I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear.

I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.

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

You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.

I play guitar a bit. I'm trying to learn drums - I feel like I can play violin. I've never tried, but I just feel like I can.

I will never be good at the oboe. No matter what happens, I will never be good at it because I just don't have that much time on my hands. I don't have the gift of going back to being a child and having my brain develop around this instrument.

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

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

I think that, initially, I was most passionate about music and particularly about playing the piano. I started playing when I was nine, and I was obsessed with it, really. I wouldn't even go spend the night at a friend's unless they had a piano. But I didn't have the chops, the extraordinary talent to be able to play the piano professionally.

Piano was my first instrument, but it wasn't the instrument that I showed the most proficiency on.

I don't know how it got around that I play a lot of instruments. I really don't. I play the guitar and the mandolin.

The musicians I really looked up to as a kid were the ones who could play everything.

As soon as I figured out I didn't know anything about music, I was OK. It's when I thought I could learn something that I was in trouble.