Grimes Quotes

I play no instruments.

The only thing I'm really, truly good at is music - I just love it.

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

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.

It's funny, because music is one of those things it is natural to go into. You hear it so much growing up, it kind of permeates you and eventually you spew out some music of your own.

I've never mastered the guitar. Either I was playing it, or it was playing me; it depends how you look at it. As a kid, the only things I had to do was go to school, do my homework, and play guitar.

My father had a phenomenal knowledge of music; my mom's family were all musicians.

I don't think you can have a calculated approach towards learning music.

Few occupations pass the solitary hours more fruitfully than the playing of a musical instrument.

We've played music all our lives.

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.

I'm practicing the oboe. But I don't play. Just single notes, not an entire piece of music.

Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.

Music's been with me from the get-go. It was always around me as a kid. Dad got me my first guitar when I was 11 and, at school, if you wanted to be cool you had to be in a band.

There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved.

I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.

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

My first engagement with any art was music.

Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.

Music is something that's always been a huge part of my life.

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.

Although I don't come from a musical background, I was given piano lessons along with my sisters, but I wasn't what you would call a good student. I tended to write songs rather than do scales.

I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.