Lola Kirke Quotes

The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human beings to do. Once you put in the effort, the learning curve is very fast.

I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day.

I've never known how to read music in my life.

Fundamentally, if there is any secret, it is about the need to find that peace and calm in our personal space with music, as most of 'learning music' is about listening to music and practicing over and over again.

I keep a fiddle hooked up in the music - we've got a music room - and try to pick it up.

I play no instruments.

I'm an interpreter of music.

But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?

I like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should.

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

To play music, you have to understand it. I didn't understand 'Topographic Oceans.' That's why I hardly played on it. It frustrated me no end - and playing the whole thing on tour, I got farther and farther away from it.

I think it's important to learn instruments, whenever one has a little space. Be eager to learn and love your instrument.

What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

I'm so into music that I just stop and listen, whenever there's music on. That's the problem with being a musician for so long. I can get lost in the bassline, fascinated with the arrangement, curious about the production. I can't shut it out.

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.

All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.

I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.

I never really trained to be a musician, but I've been playing guitar since I was around, like, 13 years old. For me, the guitar has always been the instrument that I've played. I play a little piano. I taught myself everything by ear. I don't read music at all, which has not really been a hindrance.

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.