Charlie Puth
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Podcast Appearances
In fact, it's probably better you don't.
It's better to not know everything about music because then you're just tapping into your innermost human.
We're all, not one of us are more similar than the other person.
We're all uniquely different.
We all have something to say.
So if you tap into your innermost human and you know how to play like a couple of like...
Did you ever listen to, I remember the first time I heard Pretty Girl by Claro.
She made it herself on iMovie.
You ever see that?
iMovie?
I could be a pretty girl.
Shut up if you want me to.
She wasn't like, oh, that's a G minor fucking upside down, whatever the fuck.
It was just chords that felt good.
under her tone and she was talking about something that was honest to her that's what that's that's the song that launched her she did that herself do you think it's better to know how to play an instrument to write songs or you don't think it's needed i think it's helpful i don't think it's needed
You would expect the answer to be so different from me.
It's like you have to be... This is why I always disagree with a lot of my teachers.
You don't have to be proficient at any instrument to be a human.
And music is an art form that is one of the most human...
things it's like why am i going to be like well you can't do this that and this and you can't talk about the time you got cheated on and whatever because you don't know how to play a g minor five fuck you jesus christ like come on like just be a you're you're a person like i want it like that it's it's it's fine if you are good at what you do but some i find that the people who are really really really good who can play every chord and sing every riff