Nuno Bettencourt Quotes

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.

I didn't know anything about music when I started a band. I barely knew how to play a guitar. I didn't know how to produce records. I learned how to play bass guitar and keyboards in Rilo Kiley. I picked up a lot from my collaborators.

Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.

I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.

I still have a lot to learn. I'm concentrating on learning a lot more about music.

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.

I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.

Yes was a band where we could explore some of those ideas, but I knew that if I wanted to get into orchestral music and make a living at it, movies seemed to be a perfect spot.

I'm definitely interested in making more music and uploading new covers; I like to take suggestions because it's more fun if people know the song.

I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music.

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.

You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.

I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that.

I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.

When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.

My son's taking drum lessons, and my daughter's taking piano lessons. One day they're going to start a band.

I love playing bass. It's mostly what I play in Divine Fits.

I want to write my own music, and I want to tour.

I joined the Madras Christian College but dropped out after three months. Telugu music director Ramesh Naidu asked me to assist him, and I did so for over a year. I did think of rejoining college, but by then, I was discovering the musician in me. I worked with Illaya Raja and Raj Koti and soon shifted to commercials. This led to movie offers.

The one thing I'm really the most confident in as an artist is my songwriting ability and ear for pop music. I'm really excited to show that off. It was a side that I wasn't able to show on 'American Idol.'

I'm a producer/rapper, so I feel like I can do anything. I can do all kinds of music. I've done all kinds of music, and I'm good at it.

But I love to write music. What I would love to do is give some of the songs I write to someone like Taylor Swift because I feel like she could sing them.