Instrumental Ability Quotes

I've never really considered myself a musician.

It's really hard for me to sing and play bass.

Without the piano, my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved me.

I've always felt a great affinity with music. I've felt myself to be more of a musician than anything else, though I'm not proficient in any one instrument. But I think I have a musical sense of things... and writing seems to me to be a musical experience - rhythmically and in many other ways.

There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to the acoustic.

I'd love to be an artist that's multifaceted. At the moment, I am not. But wouldn't that be cool if I was like, 'Yeah, let me pull out my guitar and play you a song.' I would adore that. I am so far not gifted in that way. But I am a very hard worker and a very determined person, so who knows?

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.

Who told you I was a musician?

God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.

I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

My ambition was just to be able to play guitar.

Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. And that's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around.

I've been musically inclined since I picked up an instrument in the fourth grade. I just really appreciate music. I love to listen to it; I love to sing. I wouldn't consider myself, like, a natural singer. I just developed it over time, honestly, just listening. I'm a great listener to music.

I mean, I don't even think of myself as a musician, really.

When I first wanted to play guitar it was because I had seen Brian Setzer. He's so good! I mean I was just blown away.

My center is not really my singing so much as my guitar playing.

I looked at myself, and I just said, 'Well, you know, I can sing, but I'm not the greatest singer in the world. I can play guitar very well, but I'm not the greatest guitar player in the world.' So I said, 'Well, if I'm going to project an individuality, it's going to have to be in my writing.'

I played cello on my early recordings, but that doesn't mean I'm a cellist, you know?

With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, 'Can I sing this part,' or, 'I want to play guitar.'

I love to sing, but I'm just terrible. I play guitar, and I play enough where I can play most country stuff, and I'll sing when it's just me.

And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.

At the end of the day, I think having some life experience is helpful to play any kind of music.

I forget that I can play guitar and that I can perform very well. It's like having an alternative life.

My sister sings, and my brother plays the keyboard.