Charlie Watts Quotes

I took a private lesson, but it didn't really work out, so I went back to playing along with records. That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.

My brother Carl taught me how to play bass. I'm a self-taught keyboard player, though - I figured out our harmonies at the piano.

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

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

The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.

My mum was very good at making me take up musical instruments, so although there was no popular music she made me learn the recorder when I was three, the violin when I was five and the piano when I was seven. I took up the guitar myself when I was 14.

I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight.

The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.

Music will always be there. I own a piano. I have it in my apartment. I play it every day, and I have a lot of musician friends who I play with.

I probably learned most of my craft from singing to the radio.

I learnt everything to do with music in my own time.

When I first started writing songs, I was almost quite embarrassed that I couldn't read music and I still to this day don't really know what chords I'm playing, I don't know the name of them.

I don't have any hobbies. Music is my hobby.

I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.

I would practice while listening to records or learn from musicians who were better than I was.

My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen.

I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone.

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

My family was all musicians. We jam all the time.

I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style!

I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.

My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in.

I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.