Quotes About Music

I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.

I don't have the genetic make-up of a frontman, but I'm learning how to do it.

I don't sing a song unless I feel it. The song don't tug at my heart, I pass on it. I have to believe in what I'm doing.

I started learning the piano at the age of 4 or 5, so I think I already liked music then.

Everywhere I go, there are all these Big Star freaks, and they're nice little guys who are usually in college, and they're kind of lonely and misunderstood, learning to play guitar.

My worst decision was not learning Spanish yet. I think it would really help my business if I could do some of my singles in Spanish or a Spanish/English mix.

At some points I wanted to give up on music still, because the business is just as bad as it was when I left in 2005. But I'm learning that I have purpose to be here.

I might not have been President if it hadn't been for school music. Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music programs.

I'm learning as I go. The music has drawn me out of my shell. It's made me open my door a little more and be able to look at people in the eye.

I'm learning about filming, and just conceptualizing as well. I think it's a good artistic inroad, even to music as well.

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.

That was how I got into music and art was being a battle kid from Jersey, so I didn't have these wonderful ways of learning commitment, dedication, practicing skill.

I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.

I'm still constantly learning and that's what keeps me excited about the guitar.

The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.

Music is a passion of mine. Im always listening, always learning.

I really know so little about recording, and I'm learning as I go.

I stopped going out and taking pills and I started hanging out and learning about flat eleven chords.

There's a weird period of learning how to play guitar where your fingers are constantly messed up a handful.

I'm always thinking about the next record. I've got like 20 different themes and then I'll scratch the themes. It's a learning process.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

I've got to give my neighbors a bottle of wine or something because I was just screaming into microphones and learning how to play instruments, and it was a lesson in patience for them, I believe.

My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.

I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.