Instrument Difficulty Quotes

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle.

If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.

The hardest instruments for women to play are bass and drums. Drums because of the physicality needed and bass just because its heavy and it's not an easy instrument to play.

I started piano like my sisters. After one year or two, I didn't like it anymore. Then, because I like trumpet, I played the cornet. When you are 7, you can't play trumpet - you play cornet. And something didn't go well. The teacher was too hard. Too rough. Suddenly, there was this instrument, the flute, that I could immediately play.

Besides, the bass isn't a difficult instrument to play. It's like one step up from the kazoo, isn't it?

Aww, come on man, I can barely handle 6 strings.

To me, all guitar players can play, because I know they're getting to where they're at. It's a very hard instrument to accept, because it takes years to start working with it, that's first, and it looks like everybody else is moving on the instrument but you. Then when you find a cat that's really playing, you always find that he's been playing a long time, you can't get around it.

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.

I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.

Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players.

Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you're playing an instrument that is really hard.

I have short hands. That's why I have to bend up to notes; I can't always reach the frets.

It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.