Brian Setzer Quotes

Obviously I'm not the best singer; obviously I'm not the best piano player or the best songwriter, but I'm doing my best on all of 'em. Once you have all those things in place, then I think everything falls the way it should.

First of all, I swore it was two people playing. When I finally admitted to myself that was one man, I gave up the piano for a month. I figured it was hopeless to practice.

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

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

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 have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

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

I can't play guitar well at all, so I had to learn that.

I promise you, if you look at YouTube and see some of my first covers, you will hear that I don't sound good. But I was so obsessed with it and wanted so much to be good at it that I forced myself to figure out what sounds right and what sounds wrong.

A musician's whole life is to listen.

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.

If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.

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

So I suppose that means we can actually play the instruments.

I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.

There's hardly anything I've ever done that's made me cringe; I've got pretty good pitch, for a start, so I'm not known for hitting bum notes.

I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If we'd had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.

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

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

Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.

I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.

Soccer presented no challenge to me. Playing felt like breathing: I always had a magical connection to the ball. But it didn't feel like an adventure. Music was more of a challenge and, in the end, felt more interesting.

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

I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter. The conductor would just rip into me, and it lasted for years.