Callie Thorne Quotes

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.

If I could play the ukulele like Zooey Deschanel, I would find my own personal M. Ward, and we would do a side album; but I don't, you know?

It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

Yes, but the great thing about all the people - and I don't think there is any exception - who I've worked with is they've all been very, very talented musicians.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right piano and organ player for the Heartbreakers. And I've been the right piano and organ player for a lot of sessions that I've been called on.

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

But I'm tone deaf - window-shattering tone deaf. I can't sing for the life of me. I can't sing or dance, so no remake of 'Grease' for me!

My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.

Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public.

The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the '60s. I had a group, but I don't think it was at the same level as Chris, because he's an amazing musician.

For the most part, I really love being in a collaborative thing. And in a collaborative thing if you have a singer as good as Sean Smith or Eddie Vedder, you kind of think, well, why don't you just go ahead and let them sing? People seem to really like it.

I'm one of those rare breed of rock n' rollers with a brain, probably because the brain's still intact.

You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums.

And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period.

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

As far as I'm concerned, it's no good being able to wail out smokin' leads if your rhythm chops hugg!

I looked at myself, and I just said, 'Well, you know, I can sing, but I'm not the greatest singer in the world. I can play guitar very well, but I'm not the greatest guitar player in the world.' So I said, 'Well, if I'm going to project an individuality, it's going to have to be in my writing.'

Being in a boy band, you're not allowed to be good at anything. You're not allowed to be talented. You're not really allowed to be a songwriter. You're not allowed to be that good a singer.

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

I'm a decent writer, barely a decent guitar player, and a terrible singer.

Mostly, I'm much more of a guitar player than I am a singer.