Listen Quote by Bryce Dessner

I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.

— Brian May

I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free…

— Barry White

Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.

— James Galway

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.

— Joanna Newsom

I was actually going to go to a conservatory after I graduated college, now I'm thankful that Pentatonix happened because I'm working with singers…

— Kevin Olusola

I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.

— Nigel Kennedy

Yes indeed I have gained a lot out of playing scales and etudes.

— James Galway

The orchestra's an amazing instrument, but I don't want to just arrange my songs for it. I think that might be kind of boring…

— Andrew Bird

I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European.

— Zubin Mehta

scales are the grammar of music.

— Frances Parkinson Keyes

I don't feel that one instrument has more weight than others. Any sound that you can produce adds to your vocabulary of possibilities.

— Jerry Garcia

I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.

— Deep Roy