What if instead of reading, you wrote? Instead of watching…

I should have written books instead of reading them.

— Alan Lightman

I wish I was making shoes instead of reading or watching movies, which is what I do in my free time.

— Manolo Blahnik

Instead of reading inspirational quotes, you should just man up

— Anonymous

“The great opposition to reading is what I allow to fill my time instead of reading. To say we have no time to read…

— James Emery White

Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success

— Herb Brooks

The standup thing has been really fun, really seeing the United States instead of reading about it.

— Jennifer Coolidge

It's really hard to teach me anything. I can't read music. I never learned how to read music. I read books about things and…

— Don McLean

The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a prayer.

— Ravi Shankar

I had 10 years of lessons at the conservatory in Belgium, studying classical music. I learned how to sing, play the piano, and all…

— Lara Fabian

I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary…

— Walter Becker

Music will still be a big part of our environment. The Bible talks about choirs of angels and how there is singing in Heaven.…

— David Berg

“Once, he'd been satisfied by the music alone. Now he had learned about friendship...”

— Nancy Farmer

Anytime I'm playing music or getting ready to record, Duane Allman will enter my thoughts, and so will Berry Oakley. It's part of my…

— Dickey Betts

I was doing experimental noise-based music and I learned a number of things about performance. I was playing small shows - sometimes without a…

— Erika M. Anderson

I was just a huge fan of music, so that's how I learned how to rap.

— Amine