Musical Ineptness Quotes

I play the drums really, really badly.

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

I can't hold a tune at all.

I tried to play bass in a punk band once, and it was an absolute disaster. I can’t play anything. I don’t know what it is.

Music still sort of hangs up there in the sky for me as this thing that moves me so much, but I can't really make it. It's like a car I can't drive.

I'm a terrible drummer; I almost cannot play the guitar nor sax nor trumpet.

If you watch 'SNL,' any time there's this thing with everyone singing, I'm, like, the one person who just has a straight line of dialogue because I can't sing to save my life.

There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway.

But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

I am very unmusical. I can't carry a tune. I would never be able to play an instrument.

I have no talent when it comes to pianos or guitars or any of that, even karaoke. For karaoke, I have to be wasted to get up there and sing.

Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.

All musical talent is absent in me, to the point of being unable to play board games that require you to hum a tune while others guess what it is, since all my humming sounds the same. Musical instruments have always seemed like alien artifacts to me, even as I really admire anyone who can play one.

She was a beefy young woman and, whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing.

If I could sing, that would be cool. But I can't. I mean, I physically can, but I'm awful. It's weird to be really bad at singing.

I would try and sing along with bands that I like but it sounded so atrocious that I couldn't.

I don't know any songs. People have asked me to play a song, and I say, "I don't know anything."

I liked school and was a bit of an all-rounder academically, I struggled with music. I can't hold a note when singing and abandoned any notion of a career in music after barely scraping a pass in grade 2 piano.

I ain't got no rhythm.

I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.

I would never inflict my bassoon on anybody really other than the long suffering audiences that come to the concerts of The Really Terrible Orchestra; which actually is really terrible.