Quotes About Learning

Learning from other people is what music is all about.

I am not a fan of books.

Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

The more I can learn about music, the more I learn about other things.

The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.

Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.

I know absolutely nothing about music.

I was 13 and my mom was a librarian so I told her to check out every music book she could possibly find. I wanted to know the business part of being in the music business.

After making music for twenty-six years I can't pretend I don't know anything about it anymore.

I had to learn chord shapes... I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.

My belief is that the music is always stronger than the performer: there is always something new, something we learn, whether at a performance or during a rehearsal.

I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.

You can never stop discovering music.

Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.

I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

You learn so much about music from all the people you surround yourself with - good, bad and indifferent. It's extremely hard to be specific.

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.

I'm a big fan of music, I'm a student of music, and I just wanna learn and keep enhancing my education about the music.

I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it.

I actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn't matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful.