musician skills Quotes

From the first album I'm playing bass on a lot of the tunes, and piano on a lot of 'em, and drums, and guitars. I did that on almost every album.

You shouldn't even be in a band if you can't play Buddy Holly's Not Fade Away.

I think Jerry Lee is sad. As a musician, he was far more talented than Elvis Presley. Everybody down in Memphis knows that. Elvis became a movie star because he was beautiful. Not that Elvis wasn't talented, but Jerry Lee Lewis was incomprehensibly talented as a musician.

If you are having trouble making a chord, get a book, that is how I learned. There are guitar tuning apps so you can tune your guitar, and just learn how to play along with your records. And it's great to be able to play along with another musician. That is like trial by fire.

Prince, I think, trained amazing musicians to bring more to any musical table they come to.

The new generation of musicians is writing music on computers, and this is very sad because the quality of songwriting has crashed and dived. There are some songs out that are made by only one guy who works a computer and doesn't play any instruments.

In reality everybody has got musical thoughts. If you are able to overcome the part of it which is muscle training, which is what most musical playing actually is, performance actually is, is muscle training, and you are able to convert your ideas directly into music, you're a musician, too.

You don't have to be a good musician if you've got certain computer skills.

Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician.

I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

I'm an okay drummer, I'm an okay bass player, I'm an okay keyboardist, and I'm a quite good guitar player.

I play acoustic when I need to play acoustic, and I say I'm probably a better acoustic player than I am electric.

Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.

I think one of the things which always is forgotten in music class, is the first thing you have to do as a musician is you have to learn how to listen.

I play the saxophone, and I used to play the piano.

I was never much of a bass player.

I'm not a real musician. If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be with some musicians and follow them, I wouldn't be able to do it. And I want to change that. I want to be able to be in a group and take my guitar and play with them, without someone showing me, "Okay, you're going to do this and that," because music has always been a big part of my life.