Musical Incompetence Quotes

I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.

I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.

Unfortunately, every time I have somebody play an instrument, it's always like, they don't know how to do it.

I'm a terrible drummer; I almost cannot play the guitar nor sax nor trumpet.

I don't know if subconsciously there was some reaction going on, if there was something in me that didn't want to learn an instrument - because I couldn't have been that incompetent!

So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.

You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music.

I think the guy who tells you he knows about music is really dumb, or he's lying to himself.

I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sing, but somehow I get away with it.

We're just musically and rhythmically retarded. We play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough. People can relate to that.

We were just amazed we were putting out a record. We were, and are, still learning. But we've never cared much for professionalism as long as the energy was there. Like our live shows: We're out of tune and use a lot of feedback. That's not on purpose or because we don't care, we're just musically and rhythmically retarded and we play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough.