Ability Quote by James Blake

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

— Derek Bailey

You can't be theoretical when you're building a musical.

— James Lapine

My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the…

— Laura Mvula

I don't remember consciously not being able to play an instrument. It's been kind of like a language for me.

— Kristian Bush

In music, you learn a lot of things when you don't know what you're doing.

— Eric Bachmann

I spent a lot of time teaching myself theory and harmony so I could be free to express myself on the instrument.

— George Benson

“Whether you are five years old and irresistibly drawn to the piano in your home, or you are an adult who suddenly falls in…

— Madeline Bruser

But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff that just…

— Charlie Hunter

I'm a self-taught musician, so I never really had the restrictions of any one instrument. I would always just sort of pick up instruments…

— Adrian Grenier

All of us, including me, can work on our skills. Music is such a huge ocean, you can never feel that you know everything.…

— Neeti Mohan

Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.

— Curt Sachs

I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory.

— Eric Whitacre