I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.
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 a guitar player or organ player would play - and I need to embrace that in a big way.
I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory.
I never really trained to be a musician, but I've been playing guitar since I was around, like, 13 years old. For me, the guitar has always been the instrument that I've played. I play a little piano. I taught myself everything by ear. I don't read music at all, which has not really been a hindrance.
If you're a musician, there's no instrument that can be withheld from you. If you're drawn to it, develop the talent for it.
In the musician, there is a tendency to have a narrowness. It's all compartmentalized. I am playing the violin; that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.
The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.
Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.
Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you've picked up an instrument, it's because you don't feel you are communicating sufficiently.
I don't remember consciously not being able to play an instrument. It's been kind of like a language for me.