Quotes About Skill

Mum enrolled us for guitar and piano lessons, none of us had any talent oh, Kunal could play the piano well.

When I was nine, my father said 'You can take piano lessons or do karate' - I had a black belt and was competing before I was 19.

If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to the same patterns.

And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.

As a piano player, if 10 is concert level, I'd put myself at a 5 or a 6, but in a completely different genre than classical or opera. In terms of classical and opera, playing accompaniment, I'd say I was a 3.

I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.

I always make it a point to pick songs on which players really shine.

I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

Martial arts is something you can learn or pick up and think you could do really well.

I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It's impressive.

If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been.

I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and entertain people.

I picked up a harmonica and taught myself.

When I'd get out of school in the afternoon, I would go to the golf course, and I just picked the game up. And when I was 13 years old, I could shoot 70 - even-par 71, one over par and then something like that. I just took a liking to the game.

I think if you're an actor, then you can work on stage - but if you've never done it before, you're going to have picked up a few things that you're going to need to change when you're working on stage.

I look at some of my early stuff - back when I was 12 or 13 years old - and I was already doing cross-hatching back then. I don't know where I picked that up. I think I was in a hurry, and I wanted to shade something really fast, and I tried cross-hatching a shadow.

We always had a guitar at home, but it wasn't until I was 14 when I picked it up myself when my father handed me these sheets of music of the Beatles and some other classics. That's where I learned all the chords and learned how to play and sing at the same time.

I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old.

In local cricket, I scored big hundreds and picked wickets against good teams.

When I was much younger I tried to play guitar and bass first. Drums were just the easiest thing for me to play. I picked it up really quickly.

Picking a guitar was a lot easier than picking cotton.

I learned tabla for three years when in school, then started picking up the basics of the acoustic guitar when in college.

I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

Picking locks or handcuffs for me is not really a big deal, I can do it pretty much in seconds, I've been doing since I was 14 years old. I used to sit on my bed as a kid with a pick set and you know just picking locks and stuff, so I'm used to it.