John Entwistle Quotes

Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

How could I? I only know two tunes. One of them is Yankee Doodle. The other isn't.

I wanted a guitar when I was 4 or 5, and I learned how to play guitar by the time I was 6. Just self-taught.

I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player.

I'm a terrible trumpet player.

I was always good at music.

As soon as I figured out I didn't know anything about music, I was OK. It's when I thought I could learn something that I was in trouble.

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

Basically, if you work hard and practice an instrument every day, you'll learn how to play like a professional. You'll get better and better each day. And that's how it works for me. I wasn't magically inclined to play. I had to keep practicing and practicing to train my fingers.

I had an edge in 'Andhadhun' because, being a musician, I knew how to play a guitar, so it was not difficult for me to learn a musical instrument.

I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.

I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.

My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.

I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.

I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts.

I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good!

If I started at 13, by the time I was 14 I was already good enough to play in front of people. I started off playing drums when I was 5, so playing in front of people didn't matter - not a problem.

I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments.

In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other.

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.

I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes.

I picked up a harmonica and taught myself.

If you can't play the blues... you might as well hang it up.