Quotes About Learning

My brain knows how to learn musical theater dancing, but learning hip-hop? It was so hard for my body to understand how to move in that way.

I was really an actor before I knew I could sing. And I just put the two together and went to musical theater school. But acting is a huge passion of mine, so it doesn't matter which medium as long as I have the opportunity to grow and to learn from a piece of work and work with good people, and on a very good-quality project.

But you can't extend, or go beyond any point musically, without the basic fundamentals.

As someone who's never been musically trained, I am sort of used to being in a position where I have to kind of do things on the fly because I wasn't trained as an actor, either, and I've very much learned on the job.

I always communicate musically. I want my band not only to learn the form and feel of the song by ear, like I do, but also have the freedom to contribute.

Musically, I just like when people are knowledgeable about music and they can talk to you about it.

Greedo taught me a lot. I don't say that about every artist. Some artists might teach me stuff musically, but Greedo taught me stuff about being a man and being a musician and being a creative, and being different from other people.

I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies. I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.

I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.

I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a guitarist.

When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.

I'm a jazz musician in that I have achieved Grade 3 on the French horn.

It is important for the musician to learn as much about the composer as possible and to study the music he has written. Then, even a short piece by Brahms or Chopin can be played with much more understanding.

I just want to grow as a musician. that's why I do different languages.

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.

The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect on the kind of musician that I became.

Every record, you've got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician.

It's funny to find there are still people around who think if a musician has schooling, it automatically makes him a lesser jazz player. But you don't learn jazz in school.

The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did.

There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice, I say, 'You gotta learn all the letters of your own personal alphabet. With music, you need to know all the different kinds of music and everything in and around your given instrument.'

Passionate musicians only come from passionate five-year-olds.

I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.

I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.

Intense study with Indian musicians such as Gaurav Majumdar and Zakir Hussain has inspired me to rethink my view of instrumental sound.