Amateur Musician Quotes

When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.

I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.

I lived a pretty chaotic life. I went to England, and I moved around, and there were a lot of things that I was interested in. I wrote poetry. I took photographs. I was a musician and all sorts of things. Nothing brilliant, but I did all these different things.

I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.

I'm not a professional entertainer. I'm not Neil Diamond.

I've never had a musical career. So I think it's been unaffected. I play the accordion. In terms of thinking of it as a musical career, I think it's sort of like calling yourself an astronaut because you have a shiny suit.

I did choir, soccer, some theater. The only weird thing about my life was that I was playing honky-tonks on the weekends.

I don't mind the word 'dilettante.' A dilettante means someone who does what he loves.

When I was 13, I posted a video of myself singing a Bruno Mars song on YouTube.

I studied piano for many years, and I still play. I'm a complete amateur, and I wouldn't consider myself very good at all, but I enjoy it.

I performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally.

My first live performance was when I was in the military. I went to some bar, and they had open mics. You could just sign up and perform. Nobody cared. Nobody liked it.

I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.

Jazz is a big thing with me. It's a very big passion of mine, to play it. I'm an amateur musician and I love everything about it. I was obsessed with jazz when I was 15 years old and I know a lot about it because I've loved it so much.

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.

Between sixteen and eighteen, I was singing anywhere I could, in bars or down at the pub.

I played saxophone for 15 years. I played out. It never reached any kind of a level that was recording or anything.

The first time I did a show, I definitely didn't get any money. My friend just let me do this show. I was so nervous: my mic didn't work, and I was like, 'Urgh.' It was terrible. It was a dingy club off of the highway, but all these people came. It was packed out.

First time I ever sang was in a contest in Louisiana when I was 9. And I won yodeling.

Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public.

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 was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

I'm an amateur.

I think I was just bored one summer afternoon, and I decided to post a little video of me singing and playing guitar out of tune.

I never took lessons. And I never aspired to be a singer until I was one in a band.