Music Basics Quotes

The piano is where everything starts and ends. Everything is based off of it. If you understand that, you wind up understanding a lot more in all other instruments. For me, it had always been something important to try and learn.

What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before you write a Hemingway novel.

I learned to play by ear before I learned music theory. For me, that makes sense. After all, children learn to speak before they read and write. The more you understand of music - how harmony and time signatures work, and what chords and inversions are - the more you'll enjoy it.

It turns out kids today still learn that four-chord progression when they're just picking up the guitar.

You hit a guitar, you hit a note, you hit a drum, you hit an organ. Meat and potatoes. Simplicity. Not getting too caught up in little tweezers of perfection.

Western, jazz, folk, or tribal music, whatever the form, they all have the same sapta swaras as the basis.

I've always been serious about music. After you've done it for so many years, you get back to the basics.

I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.

My God! What has sound got to do with music?

If you're going to get into music, you've got to learn the 12-bar blues.

Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I was hearing the fundamentals of playing the piano, what notes are, and all those things very early on.

As a kid, I took piano lessons, and I didn't like it. It wasn't cool. I was into Duran Duran and rock music. I didn't have any interest in piano. I did it for three years, and because of piano, I learned percussion. I learned scales. I learned how to sing. Piano gives you all of the basics of those things.

I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.

Well, the first day we went through three songs, very basically.