Brendan Gleeson Quotes

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.

I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano.

The great love of my life is music.

To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you're always hearing new things, so you never get to the end of it.

I lived for music since I could think.

You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.

Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.

The best way for me to teach myself an instrument is to just jam on it, and sound awful sometimes, and sound great other times.

I wanted 'Second Sky' to be my way of recommending truly good music to my audience that I think is worthy of their time.

I jumped into a world of musical learning that was very much led by myself and then I drew from the music that was all around me.

Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.

I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.

Now, when we first started, I would be playing something good and then feel like I wasn't doing the right thing and launch into some idiotic cliche. Luckily for me, Bobby was patient.

If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.

You're just sort of searching for this 'thing' and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo.

Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.

I don't always have to be on what is the newest in music is. I'm slowly educating myself in music. For me, I feel more free in not knowing everything in what I'm doing. You can start making up too many rules for yourself. It should just be love and fun and feeling good.

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.

Sometimes when you're writing on a ukulele, you're in a totally new land, rhythmically or melodically.

I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to see him. So I went home, put my piano and organ together, too.

I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray - if I hear something really great... I want to be a part of it.