Since around 6 or 7, I've been taking classes in piano, guitar, music theory. — Skip Marley Copy Share Image
I grew up with hearing, so I have a really good understanding of music theory and the structure of music. — Mandy Harvey Copy Share Image
That's where I get my whole music theory from, my pops and my grandfather. — Travis Scott Copy Share Image
“So one might say that music killed him, that he was felled by music. It's a theory. String theory.” — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music. — Moby Copy Share Image
I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to. — Amos Lee Copy Share Image
I have always had eclectic obsessions: astrophysics, music theory, the Mongol empire and its history, and the history of the Silk Road,… — Kate McKinnon Copy Share Image
We must see that music theory is not only about music, but about how people process it. To understand any art, we… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
I took music theory in high school and dropped out halfway through the semester because it was ruining music for me. — Blake Judd Copy Share Image
... sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and… — John Scofield Copy Share Image
I take books on learning to bed - music theory, colour theory - and usually my brain thinks, 'Um, I think I'd… — Toyah Willcox Copy Share Image
I was guided into piano lessons and 'guided' is a nice way of saying 'forced.' I don't regret it, but I think… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
Do everything you can to learn your craft. Score student films for free, attend conferences, learn music theory - do anything and… — John Keltonic Copy Share Image
I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I took music theory for one year in high school and flunked all but one six-week period. That's because I couldn't read… — Stevie Ray Vaughan Copy Share Image
No disrespect to people that don't use music theory or don't know it. It does help to be able to figure out… — Mike Dean Copy Share Image
I learned to play by ear before I learned music theory. For me, that makes sense. After all, children learn to speak… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a musician, 100 percent, my whole life. I went to school, I did music theory, I did… — Adria Petty Copy Share Image
“Music theory, then, very simply, could be defined as a search for how and why music sounds right or wrong. In other… — Michael Pilhofer Copy Share Image
Any talk of 'craft' makes me laugh. My music looks outward; it does not gaze upon itself in admiration. Artisanal is for… — Bill Callahan Copy Share Image
To articulate the ideas in your head, you need formal education, so you study music theory to do that. And that's the… — Van Hunt Copy Share Image
It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention.… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
“My teacher, Ben Johnston, was convinced that our tuning is responsible for much of our cultural psychology, the fact that we are… — Kyle Gann Copy Share Image
“Few exchanges in the history of science have leaped so boldly into the future as this one, which occurred a thousand years… — S. Frederick Starr Copy Share Image
Which is to say that culture is not a reflex of political economy, but that society is now a reflex of key… — Arthur Kroker Copy Share Image
Cliffs taken classes in school on music theory, things like mixing harmonies together. I think he took a junior college course. — James Hetfield Copy Share Image
I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that… — Wes Borland Copy Share Image
Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
I'm maybe too rude with myself but the fact is that I don't know music theory so I can't tell myself "it's… — Marilou Copy Share Image
With the jam bands I've seen, it's about music, and it's about theory, and it's about making everyone feel better with music. — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Rock stars are idiots. You know that! Remember this moron never went to music school, never learned music theory and can't read… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well,… — Lily Allen Copy Share Image
My first ambition in life, I made up my mind I was going to become Miles Davis. I studied music, music theory.… — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image