I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.
The guitar is my favorite and the one, I guess, I'm best at. But I play enough of the different instruments to be able to write with them and to, hopefully, to make myself look impressive on stage.
Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.
I've been playing guitar since I was 6 and then drums, bass, and piano since I was 10 years old.
I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.
I know what my taste is, and I do like my touch on the piano.
I don't remember consciously not being able to play an instrument. It's been kind of like a language for me.
At the Grammys, how many performances were with women playing instruments? Is it still surprising that a female can play an instrument proficiently?
Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!
I'm kind of a terrible musician. I'm a very functional musician. I play just about every instrument in a band setting, functionally. But I should not be taking solos.
I started playing instruments before I started making beats, and I was never the best guitarist or the best pianist or the best drummer. And when I started making beats, I was not the best beatmaker, and when I started making hooks, I was not the best vocal melody person. When I first started rapping, I wasn't the best rapper at all.
I don't know how it got around that I play a lot of instruments. I really don't. I play the guitar and the mandolin.
I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.
There's probably a lot of people wondering if I can play.
I play the sax, piano, guitar, bass... I started as a kid with piano lessons.
Bassoon is not an easy instrument to play and to pick it up and play it like a flute or a saxophone is quite an accomplishment.
I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.
Rafferty [Law] plays three or four instruments. He is very gifted. Whereas I pick instruments up and kind of stare at them and go, "I can't ever possibly play this." And I don't!
If you want to be a musician, study your craft. Study music.
I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear.
The piano is the instrument I can play the most.
I play guitar a bit. I'm trying to learn drums - I feel like I can play violin. I've never tried, but I just feel like I can.
If you don't practice for three days, everyone will notice." It's something you have to really maintain. So unfortunately, I don't play it that often but I may take it up again. If you don't play for a while, you just can't hit the notes. It's like going to the gym. If you go and do weights, you can lift x amount of weight and if you don't go for ages, you've gotta start again and start from the beginning. So it's a bit like that. It's just a muscle.
I wish I were more musically gifted, more intuitive in playing instruments.
I consider myself a musician. I like to play everything.
