Jaimoe Quotes

I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.

I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear.

I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.

I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.

Just because you have developed the craft on your instrument doesn't mean that you don't have the ability to be expressive emotionally on that instrument, or vice versa.

I love to zoom in and study why a chord is making me feel a certain way, but then I've learnt to zoom out again. Because if I'm not actually feeling it, there's not much point making it in the first place.

Of course we all know when music's too much in the head, and we define our greatest players by the way they are able to communicate directly from their emotional selves.

The right notes mean more than 1,000 mph arpeggios.

When I was younger, I was always a musician that could play by ear better than I could analytically.

As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music.

If I'm not crying while writing a song, I'm not doing it right.

I can't read music. That's not where I come from musically. I come strictly from feeling, and that feeling comes from rock & roll.

I don't see music as working.

I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.

Yes indeed I have gained a lot out of playing scales and etudes.

What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.

I'm trying to learn classical piano, Mozart and Beethoven and stuff. I took lessons when I was younger and now I sort of sight read the music and play it by ear. It's fun. It takes up a lot of time. I practice a couple of hours a day, but I find it soothing.

The ultimate guitar players can play every scale in the book.

I don't read music. I don't write or read music.

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.

I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.

I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.

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

I was in a church choir early on and that really helped me musically in terms of chops, learning how to sing harmonies.