Musical Performance Skills Quotes

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument - learning to do your craft - that's the most important thing! It's not about what goes on in a computer!

It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes.

I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows.

I also think something that makes the whole live performance fun for me is that I love my music.

Making a record? You've got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it's the same with a live performance. If the material is strong, you're already 90% there. I always tell young people it's all about the music, the songs. Work on the songs, work on the songs, work on the songs.

I've only ever been in one band in my life, and that was in middle school.

Performing was always something that I actually used to do before I settled in the studio as a composer.

And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.

Conductors are performers.

Being in a rock band for 20 years is not the best resume for anything else.

If kids and teenagers can get into a band, it's probably not because they think it's brainy.

When I started learning the violin, my choir teacher thought I could sing. But when I first got on stage, I froze!