I'm so jealous of my friends who came from these super musical households where they were learning piano at three years old. My parents didn't really play loads of music around the house. We had the radio, but they weren't teaching me about music.
Ask about music growing up, I'll tell you I grew up playing classical music, and I didn't grow up in a musical household.
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.'
Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.
I started playing violin when I was about five years old and I learned to read a little bit of music, but that's all been long, long forgotten! I actually quit violin to teach myself guitar and just went from there.
I'm not a 'practicing' musician anymore. I played bass and guitar. I still pick up a guitar around the house every once in awhile.
I'm kind of a terrible musician. I'm a very functional musician. I play just about every instrument in a band setting, functionally. But I should not be taking solos.
I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.
A lot of producers don't have any musical education. I couldn't make the music I make without playing the piano.
My brother Carl taught me how to play bass. I'm a self-taught keyboard player, though - I figured out our harmonies at the piano.
I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
I have not practiced saxophone since 1980. I mean, not one note. I do not pick it up in my house, and that's the end of it.
I cannot learn creation from other people; I've got to do it myself. Now, honestly, I regret not studying - I don't know about harmonies, or anything, so if I'm composing a song, it's really hard.
To sustain and become a musician of a certain calibre, you need to know and understand music completely. You need to have a good taste in music and should know your good music from mediocre ones.
I can play piano, classical flute, guitar, bass and I'm OK on drums.
I consider myself a musician. I like to play everything.
I play bass. I play a bit of guitar. I've never been to a lesson, so my theory of music is non-existent in any instrument, but we always had guitars around.
I think that the more that you play and the more instruments you play and the better you get at them, then you will be better off for it as a guitarist.
I'm not a classically trained composer, and I can't sing very well.
I've grown, and my passion for music has grown. I've become more advanced and I've enhanced my vocabulary. All around artist development.
I played the piano growing up and then stopped for 10 or 12 years.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
I had no musical training at all.
Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.
I had no real respect for good technique because I didn't know what it was. I was self-taught, so that stuff didn't matter to me.
