Paul Thomas Anderson Quotes

I know I'm not musically talented.

See, I'm not a very good musician.

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

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

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.

I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player.

I feel that I speak the musical language.

I never learned to read music.

You've got to really know your song, inside and out.

But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if you are not around that environment, then you'll find you lose that feel, that momentum, you lose all that.

I can't play any instrument for the life of me, but I know what I want to hear.

If I could read it, I could play it.

I was always good at music.

Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.

As soon as I figured out I didn't know anything about music, I was OK. It's when I thought I could learn something that I was in trouble.

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 can't play piano well enough without making mistakes.

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.

I think music is another language.

And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.

Conducting is more difficult than playing a single instrument. You have to know the culture, to know the score, and to project what you want to hear. Some conductors are well prepared but cannot transmit their ideas to an orchestra, and others are good communicators but have nothing to transmit because they are not absorbed enough in the score.

I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.

I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.