Taylor Goldsmith Quotes

Playing guitar is not a beauty contest.

Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout.

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

I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.

I play guitar... I like to say that I'm pretty good, but it takes someone else to tell you that you're really good.

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

See, I'm not a very good musician.

The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.

A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.

There is no 'perfect' in music. If I ever came off the stage and felt it could not be better, it would then be time to quit.

In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other.

Music is not a game to me. I take it very seriously.

Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.

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 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.

If what you do for a living is play drums or bass, then that defines you. You don't want to be some guy missing notes here and there; you want to really speak with it.

There's an interesting thing I've seen with Australian bands: when you put them side-by-side with bands from other parts of the world, they're just more musical. They're just better.

I'm musical in the sense that I can write a song, but I realised when I was learning the piano as a child that there were people who played it so much better.

I knew I loved music, and I knew that I could feel music. So, I knew I had rhythm.

I'm not saying I'm the bee's knees. But I am a legitimate musician.

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.

To me, music is not a stunt. Music is not a joke. I take every lick of music that I've ever played very serious.

To me the bottom line is: good music is good music.

I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was far greater than my ability.