Read Music Quotes
43 quotes by 40 authors
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Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
— Ray Charles
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The day of the great Jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.
— Maynard Ferguson
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A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
— Thomas Beecham
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Though the structures and patterns of mathematics reflect the structure of, and resonate in, the human mind every bit as much as do the structures…
— Keith Devlin
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A lot of people think that if they learn to read music they are gonna lose their feel or their groove or something. It's the…
— Frank Gambale
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My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician
— Ethel Merman
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You don't have to have a terrific voice or know how to read music. The only requirement is that you enjoy singing, fun and fellowship.…
— Dick Miller
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I never had any lessons. When I first started playing I used to read music. I was very interested in music. But when I started…
— John Bonham
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
— Zoltan Kodaly
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My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV.
— Damon Albarn
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The people wanted to believe that the Negroes couldn't learn to read music but had a natural talent for it. So we never played with…
— Eubie Blake
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All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, 'Isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being…
— Eubie Blake
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I never really trained to be a musician, but I've been playing guitar since I was around, like, 13 years old. For me, the guitar…
— Steve Kazee
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Yeah, I can read music and I know the names of chords.
— Dave Navarro
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I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to…
— Chad Smith
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I never learned to read music.
— Norman Spinrad
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I just can't read music.
— Kate Smith
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I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to…
— Sophie Kinsella
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When I was first aware that I couldn't read music I didn't know I couldn't read because I could play the music that was in…
— Dave Brubeck
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I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.
— Erykah Badu
Who Wrote These Read Music Quotes
40 authors contributed a total of 43 Read Music Quotes, led by these top contributors: