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Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.

— Eric Clapton

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Maybe the biggest thing that I've learned musically is that anything is possible. Things can work when maybe they don't seem like they can.

— Kenny G

There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven't had the luck to fall into everything like I have.

— Glenn Tipton

I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not.

— Luther Allison

You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.

— Mahavishnu John McLaughlin

The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.

— Nick Lowe

I don't see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it's unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of a great deal of other music.

— Peter Maxwell Davies

When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes. It comes down to people's personalities and individual energies.

— Cass McCombs

I know I'm not musically talented.

— Rob Mariano

You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.

— David James Elliott

✗Opposing Perspectives

To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

— David Bowie