Stewart Copeland Quotes

I play no instruments.

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.

My grandfather was an excellent harmonium player, and after him, I, too, trained myself and can play a few musical instruments well.

I've played the guitar since I was 12, I've played the piano since I was 15.

When I was much younger I tried to play guitar and bass first. Drums were just the easiest thing for me to play. I picked it up really quickly.

I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.

I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.

My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn't blow a note, so he suggested the guitar. Chromatic harmonica was actually my first instrument, and I got very good at it - not quite Stevie Wonder, but very good.

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

I've played piano and guitar when I was younger.

I didn't sing, but I did play the drums.

Music has always been part of my family's life. My brother, sister, and I all have the same ability to pick up an instrument and play.

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.

Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?

I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician.

I think it's important to learn instruments, whenever one has a little space. Be eager to learn and love your instrument.

My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!

My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.

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.

From an early age, I was infatuated with music. I always loved it and was always dancing or playing something.

I always wanted to play some kind of instrument - piano, saxophone, whatever. I took it up for a while, then forgot about it because I didn't have the time.

I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.

The accordion was the first instrument I played, when I was 7 years old.