Steve Burns Quotes

Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.

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.

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

I do play the guitar, but I do it for fun. And I am terrible at writing music as well. I have tried and failed, horribly.

Now, when we first started, I would be playing something good and then feel like I wasn't doing the right thing and launch into some idiotic cliche. Luckily for me, Bobby was patient.

I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.

When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.

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

I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano.

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

Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.

I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic - my brother was playing bass in the next room.

I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.

To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you're always hearing new things, so you never get to the end of it.

I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son!

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!

I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock.

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.

I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.

I got my first real bass guitar in my hands when I was 14 - a 1957 Fender Precision, which is still hanging on the wall in my front room. I loved the heaviness of it and the feel of the wood. I still do.