I was a bad student. My teachers gave up trying to teach me how to read music. — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear. — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
“I’m lyrically illiterate. Actually, more accurately, I can’t read music.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
A lot of times I wish I would have learned to read music, but I'm very impatient. — Tommy Bolin Copy Share Image
I learned to read music when I was 10 and did piano and took lessons. — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
“Learning to read music in Braille & play by ear helped me develop a [very] good memory.” — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
I don't know how to read music. You pick your guitar, you start playing chords and make up a melody that comes… — Haim Saban Copy Share Image
When I first started writing songs, I was almost quite embarrassed that I couldn't read music and I still to this day… — Freya Ridings Copy Share Image
I'm a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV. — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
I don't read music. I've never had a lesson. I don't know anything about music other than what my inner knowledge is. — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
I can't read music. That's not where I come from musically. I come strictly from feeling, and that feeling comes from rock… — Bobby Keys Copy Share Image
I can write orchestrations, but I can't sight-read music and play at the same time. I don't have enough facility. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing… — Mark Morris Copy Share Image
I'm trying to learn classical piano, Mozart and Beethoven and stuff. I took lessons when I was younger and now I sort… — Evan Peters Copy Share Image
I was put through piano lessons when I was a kid. I say 'put through' because it was fun and I loved… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
I never really trained to be a musician, but I've been playing guitar since I was around, like, 13 years old. For… — Steve Kazee 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
I took opera lessons. I can't read music to save my life, but I would just copy and get away with it.… — Alex Winston Copy Share Image
Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I… — Valerie Simpson Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people that don't scour websites regularly or read music reviews. They need whatever, the other kinds of… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Well, I'm very dyslexic, so I can't read music. It means I never know where I'm at so it's different every single… — Daniel Powter Copy Share Image
I've written arrangements for choirs and strings in the past, but I usually write music with my voice or a keyboard and… — Bjork Copy Share Image
I studied piano from the age of three. My grandmother taught piano. I stayed at her house during the day while my… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
My mother wanted me to learn how to read music. She'd given fiddles to my two older brothers, but they'd rebelled. I… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I'm often surprised by classical music and musicians. I've met a large number of them because my wife works for the Boston… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
“When he was left alone, when he had pulled out one stop after another (for the work required it), Stanley straightened himself… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
The people wanted to believe that the Negroes couldn't learn to read music but had a natural talent for it. So we… — Eubie Blake Copy Share Image
When I got to Performing Arts, within the first week, a few days, Bill Charlap walked in and couldn't read music but… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
I definitely learned to communicate with other musicians better. I used to feel so intimidated by guys who can read notes, like,… — Flying Lotus Copy Share Image
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