Best Musical Skill Quotes

"The cool thing about the phone flex freestyle from December is that it's left no doubt in anybody's mind that you are one of the greatest of all time."

"I wish I could be able to listen to a song and be able to find the chords for it and just play it. Like, on the spot."

"It takes a master guitar player to be able to back off of complexity for the sake of the song overall."

"He's like a great jazz guy who's got complete control of his instrument."

"Seriously, you can always learn piano, no matter how old you are."

"Every single verse is a grand slam like baseball, H-Mac I'm on it, I'm about to make you bug out."

"The most difficult thing is to have chops and play interesting melodic ideas."

"Sight-reading rocket parts isn't that hard for me."

"He is by far the most comfortable rapper while also being the most skilled."

"The tone is not in the gear, the tone is in the hands."

"Moving up the neck chords opens up new musical possibilities with chords you already know."

"If you have the experience with creating a good solid fundamental tone, you can get an amazing sound from a cheap bass."

"The more chords you know, the more courage it takes to not play them."

"Alicia excelled at math, loved to read, and played musical instruments."

"The that is a masterful guitar part I have to say Stone Gossard I think wrote that."

"That run, that little like run melisma down seems so difficult."

"If you're gonna become a tight drummer...you have to be able to do this."

"Your best place to cultivate a sense of guitar awareness to become a guitar player of my level."

"Once you get to the point where your melody based solos are going well... you’ll be unstoppable."

"I can compose on piano a lot, um because the you know the linear organization of it all the notes are in order and stuff but yeah um I play I can play quite a few wind instruments um a basic sort of level but the main thing is flute really um."

"You have to be able to master ghost notes on the snare."

"He was crushing it at these solo shows, he had always been a great live vocalist but he had never really sounded this good live before."

"If you master one instrument that does a lot and spend all your time on that, that's gonna give you, you know, a much better understanding of exactly how everything works."

"It's like someone playing the piano. You just feel the music. You don't need to look at the keys. They just play."

"Mars uses bent notes, slurs, and smears with all of the confidence and energy of someone who has spent all their life up until this point mastering the craft of one specific instrument."

"Not a whole heap of voices are going to be able to do exactly what he does as a vocalist."

"Anybody that can do the Blues the way nature intended, and you can't argue with Mayer's Blues Licks, he's got all of them."

"Good bands do this even if they don't know what neutral thirds and Mixolydian are."

"Being able to turn the note on like the ukulele as you play it."

"Dude I have never heard anyone play that [ __ ] good."

"...it's not the tapping and the shredding and the bar Dives and all that kind of stuff it is absolutely Flawless inhuman command of GrooVe..."

"I mean, I'm no John Mayer, but you know."

"If you can listen to 20 seconds of that drummer and know who they are, that to me means they've achieved like great success."

"I think Reggie is the greatest studio player in my book, his licks are still timeless."

"To become an incredible guitar player first, then pick the guitar that gives you and be able to translate your emotion."

"That's a real skill, to be able to play with a click track, play good parts in time."

"Playing along with a click track is an insanely skilled task for drummers, requiring precise timing and control."

"When you know that simple Blues scale boy oh boy you can you can live forever."

"Train yourself to tune by ear; treat your ear like a muscle and exercise it."

"His level of control and muting is pretty much second to none."

"Learn how to play in all the keys."

"Especially if you're interested in playing jazz and especially if you want to be able to sight-read chord changes off of a lead sheet, you really should have these chord shapes super down."

"You really have to kind of hear those notes before you play them."

"Great players can sound amazing with any gear, but most of us are not amazing players, so we do sound better with nice guitars and nice amps."

"You have to have really good rhythm to be a drum player."

"When you nail one that just fits the song so well, then you've got another chop right in your tool belt."

"My dad is literally the best guitarist I know. He's phenomenal."

"He played as good as it gets and sounded as good as it gets."

"Make sure that you can control your limbs independent of one another to really get the dynamics sounding great."

"So to recap, based on everything I've learned, everything I practiced, and everyone I've spoken to, I would estimate that for a beginner to learn how to play righty or lefty would take the same amount of time regardless of whether you're righty or lefty."

"It takes more skill to play slowly, believe it or not."

"This is really how you figure out things and become a better musician, is to develop your ear."

"A singer should stay on key, which rules out 90% of the singers today."

"Your air guitar is really coming along."

"She's good. Like, I don't think she gets enough credit for how good she is as a vocalist."

"The trick to being a great drummer is to be able to play the bass drum as soft as you possibly can."

"One of the most important aspects of playing the guitar and being a great guitar player is your ability to play rhythm."

"The more and more you can play around with these different octaves and be able to hit octaves everywhere, the easier time you'll have in constructing chords and changing voicings and making them your own."

"Good singing is a byproduct of good listening."

"It's a great way to build up your ear and also your technique in the difficult keys."

"If you sing really well, it can help you lead worship absolutely."

"Everything that it's gonna take to make you a better, more creative rhythm guitar player."

"I would so much rather be in a band with a person who is a great hang and a good player than a great player and a not so good hang."

"How is it possible for someone to have that amount of vocal control?"

"I know how to play a few of Earth, Wind & Fire songs on the keyboard."

"It doesn't matter how fast you can play... these experiences... has shaped everything that you've done in your musical career."

"That's going to help you fluidly navigate around the kit, which will help you nail your favorite songs with ease."

"I'm totally envious of the way Jeff Beck plays because he's treating a guitar like a noise-making machine as well as a melody-making machine."

"Once you learn this exercise, you'll be able to easily and seamlessly connect your scales to play beautiful jazz lines."

"The war made him a better violinist because it made him a better person."

"Learning to play songs by ear is really, really important."

"Buddy Rich was known just as the chop-meister, you know, the guy with the chops, the greatest chops, but there was way more to it than that."

"They just know how to do it, the syncopation, it's just amazing."

"The secret to a smooth buzz roll is overlap."

"Being able to play in all 12 keys is a huge accomplishment."

"The virtuosity that you need to play this Scriabin concerto is the rhythmic flexibility and singing lines."

"It's a technical feat in and of itself, but it's also a musical feat."

"To be a good violin player, you do need to understand exactly how your instrument works."

"If I could have a skill or talent, I want to be able to play a musical instrument."

"This flugelhorn soloist was nails, so so good."

"You can't just push down the buttons and hope to get the right notes."

"If you don't hear some really terrifying stuff, do check out his solo on 'Lonely Nights' by White Lion—that thing is a beast."

"He learned how to play like every musical instrument by the time he was like five or six."