Vikram Seth Quotes

My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.

When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'

I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.

No, I'm a horrible singer, I'm awful.

I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.

I sing in full voice in the car and have a tendency to harmonize badly.

I would try and sing along with bands that I like but it sounded so atrocious that I couldn't.

My mother tried to teach me when I was a small child to sing but failed because of my inability to carry a tune.

I remember at the age of, and I'll say this, 10 and a half, 11, I had a natural boy soprano.

My sister tells me I began singing before I could even talk. My first performance was of a song called 'My Blue Heaven,' which I began singing when I was a year and a half.

When I was eight, an uncle, great uncle, gave a violin to me, and my father took me off to have lessons. After about six weeks, the violin teacher told my father he was wasting his money, wasting his time, and wasting my time, and it's one of my big regrets.

I ain't got no rhythm.

I think the singer in Pearl Jam should eat some Pearl Jam! He cannot sing to save his life! And the guitar player needs to seek help.

One day I was at the park with my family, all my cousins and stuff, in Frankston... We were all just singing a song and my aunty was like 'oh guys, she can actually hold a note.' I think that's the earliest memory of someone actually pointing me out as someone that has an ability to sing. I was probably like 7 years old.

I can't hold a tune at all.

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

I play the drums really, really badly.

I have no talent when it comes to pianos or guitars or any of that, even karaoke. For karaoke, I have to be wasted to get up there and sing.

All musical talent is absent in me, to the point of being unable to play board games that require you to hum a tune while others guess what it is, since all my humming sounds the same. Musical instruments have always seemed like alien artifacts to me, even as I really admire anyone who can play one.

But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

She was a beefy young woman and, whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing.

I am very unmusical. I can't carry a tune. I would never be able to play an instrument.

I liked school and was a bit of an all-rounder academically, I struggled with music. I can't hold a note when singing and abandoned any notion of a career in music after barely scraping a pass in grade 2 piano.

I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time.

I have known Ori Kam for several years and have always regarded him as an extraordinarily talented young mucisian.