Quotes About Versatility

I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players, but there's so much music out there and so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

Few of us boggle - though we should - at the fact that Louis Armstrong sang and played trumpet with similar panache, or that Leonard Bernstein and Benjamin Britten were equally adept as composers, conductors and pianists.

I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.

We had a bunch of instruments around the house. Like, I played different instruments, trumpet, bass, drums, piano, all that, but whatever I could get my hands on.

I'm a terrible drummer; I almost cannot play the guitar nor sax nor trumpet.

I can play anything - piano, drums, guitar, harp - I can even play a trumpet through another trumpet.

I can play in six different positions where managers can trust me. It must give them food for thought knowing I can do a job in different positions.

I play basketball. I play center, and if you haven't watched me play, I'm not a regular big man. I can move my feet. Not saying I can stop anyone out there who's in front of me, but trust me: I can really be a problem on the perimeter guarding somebody.

I want to express what's meaningful. I'm not into gimmicks. I want to make truthful music that's invigorating, maintains a cutting edge, takes on different shades.

I can make any type of music, so I wouldn't want to describe myself as having one type of sound. I think music is about keeping it diverse.

So I created a tool for you to do just that. With the Mii Fighter creator you can have any character you want join the battle.

Normally my problem is that I'm too inquisitive and want to do everything.

Everybody thinks if you do one thing, you can't do something else. So I like the fact that I can be versatile if I want to.

I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want.

I don't kind of want to be known as a one-trick pony who just does the adult-alternative song once a year that makes it onto the radio and people sort of think it's nice.

When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.

A good cook can make something amazing out of even the blandest ingredients. Still, you don't want to eat the exact same dish every day.

Every actor wants to change things up a bit. You don't want to be pigeonholed, and not just because of what the industry might think.

I have to fit in. Wherever they want to use me, that's fine.

Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do.

Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.

I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.

I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.