Rue McClanahan Quotes

I keep a fiddle hooked up in the music - we've got a music room - and try to pick it up.

I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.

I do have musical background; I sing.

I listen to Prince on my iPad. And I use a Chords & Scales app to warm up before performing.

I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.

I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself.

I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.

I love the whole aspect of music, especially the singing; I never get tired of finding new songs to sing and sing them in a way that's interesting for the public.

I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school.

Yeah, I've always sung, and I always try to find a way for music to be in my life.

Singing and playing have always gone hand-in-hand with me. I love 'em both equally.

I'm always working on a new album because I'm always writing, and I'm always in and out of my home studio.

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

I've been gearing up for this future of writing a lot of new music by digging into my favorite old stuff, and twisting it around and highlighting the things I really love.

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I'm always going to be writing songs and recording them.

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.

I've played the guitar since I was 12, and just taught myself songs chord by chord.

I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that.

We recorded several of Kenny's songs in the living room of my home.

I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.

I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.

Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.