Musical Ability Quotes

#1. I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it.

Erykah Badu

#2. I think some people just have an innate musical ability, and I'm lucky enough to be one of those people.

Marina And The Diamonds

#3. I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

Simon McBurney

#4. Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.

Roger Moore

#5. Rather than relying on my skills, the musical ability of my band or the technical expertise of our production team, I want to learn to rely on the leading of the Holy Spirit. Only then will our churches come alive in worship.

Tim Hughes

#6. I think at times the very strong feelings I have about my country coincide with my musical ability, and I'm able to actually turn it into music, a song or even hopefully a memorable song, sometimes. You may find it surprising, but I'm a very intense, proud American. I love being an American.

John Fogerty

#7. I took a break, stretched, tried again, failed, kicked over the music stand (I am not proud of that), and wonder whether I had reached the limits of my musical ability. Maybe I'd never had any. Surely someone with a modicum of talent wouldn't have to work this hard.

Rachel Hartman

#8. I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don't have a great ear. It's like a tragedy - I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.

Bo Burnham

#9. Musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed. Any child who is properly trained can develop musical ability just as all children develop the ability to speak their mother tongue. The potential of every child is unlimited.

Shinichi Suzuki

#10. Unless you had a popular video on YouTube
or could perform shows in front of thousands, musical ability meant nothing.

Nicholas Sparks

#11. I love 'Guitar Hero' because I love music, but I have no musical ability whatsoever. So I love a game that makes you feel like you're a rock star.

Marisa Miller

#12. I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed.

Shinichi Suzuki

#13. Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

Rudolf Carnap

#14. I think I'm supposed to "take a sad song and make it better," but that's beyond my musical ability

Sophia Bennett

#15. I am first, and foremost, an actor. That's what I am. To me, a song is a mini-drama. My musical ability informs the actor as well because it gives me a sense of timing that non-musicians don't have. So, one hand washes the other.

Theodore Bikel

#16. The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique.

Mick Taylor

#17. To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.

Jon Landau

#18. Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Alan Autry

#19. Louie Bellson represents the epitome of musical talent. His ability to cover the whole musical spectrum from an elite percussionist to a very gifted composer and arranger never ceases to amaze me. I consider him one of the musical giants of our age.

Oscar Peterson

#20. When the world beats you down, open up your Bible.

Lysa TerKeurst

#21. I love to dance; it's one of my favorite things to do.

Melissa Peterman

#22. Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, 'No one's being nice enough to me!'

Kate Beckinsale

#23. Rob Mullins' musical abilities are unquestionable.

Hubert Laws

#24. I think the best part of learning a language is that you can see the country's culture through the language. And it gives you different levels of understanding of that culture when you really try to dig in and learn it.

Mark Lippert

#25. Being a poet, the advantages of dyslexia are many, affording me sensitivity to the musical nuances of language and the ability to juggle complicated ideas and narratives simultaneously.

Philip Schultz

#26. I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasn't particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.

Doug Stanhope

#27. I play around with my Japanese Garden. Since Im half way to 70 today I need to start pruning trees and sharpening plants like an old fart.

Jason Bateman

#28. The late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that rivals the visual one that happened in the 1400s.

Daryl Hall

#29. He was around where the tree-line bulged herniatically out toward the end of the West Courts' fencing.

David Foster Wallace

#30. A talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there.

Dale Carnegie

#31. Life is too short to be serious

Cory Monteith

#32. And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.

Lynn Johnston

#33. Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles.

Andrew S. Gilbert

#34. Okay, so I'm now a fan of myself. I can live with that.

Dave Eisenstark

#35. She spent her idle time conceiving of musicals that would never be. It was the only medium that could properly express our true madness and hypocrisy---our collective ability to sit in a theater watching lunatics sing nonsense while the world outside burns.

Dave Eggers

#36. I decided to combine my musical background, business education and creative abilities - and go into the record business.

Alan W. Livingston

#37. The soul is like a caged bird, it waits for the right person to open the door and set it free.

Belinda Taylor

#38. Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.

Herbie Hancock

#39. I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.

Mary Timony

#40. I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms, he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him.

Trevor Rabin

#41. Love is the only thing in this whole universe, that can make the roses grow out of the swords.

Akshay Vasu

#42. I don't know how to let you go/ You are so deep down in my soul.

Keith Anderson