If I can't do an opera as well as most people, I won't do it at all. I don't want to touch Wagner because I think a lot of people do it a hell of a lot better than I could. I do the operas I think I can do, know something about.
It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.
I think everybody thinks they're an amazing singer, but I'm one of those guys who realizes where his limitations are, and it's definitely with singing and dancing.
I knew I was a good singer - I've been singing my whole life, so I was comfortable enough with that - I felt like I could compensate with not being great on guitar.
All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.
It was such a wake-up call going to music school and being one among so many that are really good at singing.
I was a lucky kid. You could have got 10 kids to be in The Byrds who were better than I was.
Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability . . . For the ear he is an unutterable bore, not nearly so talented as Frank Sinatra back in the latter's rather hysterical days at the Paramount Theater.
Playing to a decent standard sometimes isn't enough.
The Doors were never that good as musicians.
There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
I listen to everything that comes in. I'm not real worried about demo sound quality. I can hear through that sort of thing. If a band can play, then they can play.
I'm not a very technical musician at all.
I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
Orchestral musicians have a different approach than we do, and when I say 'we,' I mean musicians who don't know what they are doing.
The Faces do not, as some have recently alleged, play badly. They are more than competent, especially at creating a mid-Sixties Rolling Stones-styled groove, as their excellent version of 'Memphis' proves.
I always considered technical musicianship as something you should be ashamed of - I don't know why.
When I hear the words jazz pianist, that just means I have the skills to do most things. Because to be a jazz pianist, even to be a bad jazz pianist, you have to be pretty good.
I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well.
But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him.
I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.
I know I'm not musically talented.
Everybody on our cast is very musically talented, except for me.
Even Angus says that Malcolm is a better guitarist than he is. He makes the drummer's job so easy, he's a metronome.
