Kat Dennings Quotes

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

For the record, Jeff Jarret cannot play guitar. Honky Tonk Man cannot play guitar. Elias? Guitar, piano, harmonica, drums, you name it. I can do anything.

The musicians I really looked up to as a kid were the ones who could play everything.

I'm an okay drummer, I'm an okay bass player, I'm an okay keyboardist, and I'm a quite good guitar player.

You know, I am very versatile in music.

Playing to a decent standard sometimes isn't enough.

My goal is to just be able to play as many instruments as I possibly can.

I don't focus on one thing. I play guitar and bass and keyboards and drums, but I never stay on anything long enough to become a specialist at it.

But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him.

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

Everybody on our cast is very musically talented, except for me.

Playing guitar is not a beauty contest.

I would love to be able to program myself to pick up any instrument and to be able to play it very, very well, and to be able to read music and dance as well. I'm very uncoordinated, and I'd love to be able to bust a really great move.

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.

I'm a pretty good drummer. I'm pretty good at guitar, bass and piano. I can play accordion; I'm not virtuoso. I've played cello before. My sister played it, and I know how to play it, but I'm not the best. Violin is kind of the same thing.

Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.

I was born with music inside of me, and that was the first flower that bloomed on my tree, but I was the highest key in my school and also the lowest key, seen?

Even Angus says that Malcolm is a better guitarist than he is. He makes the drummer's job so easy, he's a metronome.

It was such a wake-up call going to music school and being one among so many that are really good at singing.

We're able to play different genres and be very specific in sounding like we know what we're doing.

I'd say I'm really, really good for a 16-year-old, which is where I peaked. I'm impressive, but not classically trained, not a concert pianist.

I'm lucky that I can play all kinds of music, that it appeals to all of the generations.

I'm quite good on the harmonica and can get a tune out of most musical instruments, so long as the tune is 'Oh Susannah.'